Is it possible to do a 301 redirect AND redirect to the requested resource

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For one of our projects, we're doing a rebranding of the website name, logo, etc…

As such, we need to 301 Moved Permenantly redirect all users from the old domain to the new domain. With IIS7, that's pretty simple. We just create a new website that redirects all traffic to a host-headered domain .. to the new one.

But this loses their original destination resource.

eg.
Old Domain: www.OldDomain.com
New Domain: www.NewDomain.com

User: www.OldDomain.com/user/PureKrome  -> 301 --> www.newDomain.com

Notice how it's going to the new domain BUT not to /user/PureKrome?

How can I do this so it goes to the new domain and keeps the original resource request? I'm guessing URL-ReWriter for IIS7 might help?

Also, what happens if I want to do this…

CurrentDomain 1: Domain.com
CorrectDomain 1: www.Domain.com
CurrentDomain 2: AnotherDomain.com
CorrectDomain 2: www.AnotherDomain.com

Is it also possible to have those in the same IIS website? So any URL to domain.com will 301 to www.domain.com

Right now I'm making 2 IIS websites, with a 301 hardcoded (which still means I lose the original resource request, too).

Help!

Best Answer

RuslanY's Blog has a great post that describes how to do this with the IIS rewriter.

I will quote his Tip #3 :-

Very often you may have one IIS web site that uses several different host names. The most common example is when a site can be accessed via http://www.yoursitename.com and via http://yoursitename.com. Or, perhaps, you have recently changed you domain name from oldsitename.com to newsitename.com and you want your visitors to use new domain name when bookmarking links to your site. A very simple redirect rule will take care of that: view plaincopy to clipboardprint?

<rule name="Canonical Host Name" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" negate="true" pattern="^ruslany\.net$" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://ruslany.net/{R:1}" 
            redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

To see an example of how that works try browsing to http://www.ruslany.net/2008/10/aspnet-postbacks-and-url-rewriting/. You will see in the browser’s address bar that “www” is removed from the domain name.

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How to redirect URLs using the proxy module in Apache

From your comment on my previous answer I gather that you are using Apache as a forwarding proxy (ProxyRequests On). You can use mod_rewrite to proxy pass through specific URL's.

You probably got something like this in your Apache config:

ProxyRequests On
ProxyVia On
<Proxy *>
   Order deny,allow
   Allow from xx.xx.xx.xx
</Proxy>

Then you have to add the following in order to proxy-pass all requests from www.olddomain.com/foo to www.newdomain.com/bar:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.olddomain\.com$
RewriteRule /foo(.*)$ http://www.newdomain.com/bar/$1 [P,L]

What this does is:

When a request is made to the host www.olddomain.com, the RewriteRule will fire.
This rule substitutes /foo to http://www.newdomain.com/bar/.
The substitution is handed over to mod_proxy (P).
Stop rewriting (L).

Example result:

Browser is configured to use your Apache as proxy server.
It requests www.olddomain.com/foo/test.html.
Your Apache will rewrite this to www.newdomain.com/bar/test.html.
It will request this page from the responsible web server.
Return the result to the browser as www.olddomain.com/foo/test.html.

How to setup site for no www

It is enough to setup the proper DNS records to get the website working with and without wwww.

Usually, it is done by pointing the domain name to the server IP and by defining the www as CNAME to the same domain.

The article in the first link you provided describes a possible optimization as they said. They said that rewrite rules are defined to make search engines see only one site not two.

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