What's the best way to redirect an entire classic ASP website to a new domain ?

Question

I need to redirect an entire classic asp based website to a new domain whilst still maintaining the search engine ranking of the old site.

I think a 301 redirect is required but not sure what the best way of doing this would be as I don't think .htaccess works on an IIS Windows based server.

I would prefer not to have to change existing ASP files individually as there are quite a few.

Any suggestions would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

I do not know if there is a better method, but what I do is using IIS permanent redirect:

1. Go to the "Home Directory" tab of the site properties
2. Select option "A redirection to a URL"
3. Enter "http://yournewurl$S$Q" in the "Redirect to" text box
4. Check both the options "The exact URL entered above", and "A permanent redirection for this resource"

So all requests for http://youroldurl/path/page?querystring get permanently redirected to http://yournewurl/path/page?querystring

More details can be found here.

PS: Above are steps for II6, IIS 7 might differ, I can't really recall.

Update:

Using 404 direct with the following in the default page and the 404 page:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location","http://yournewurl/"
%>