Like you, one day i was also surfing to the internet to find out a way out redirecting my non www domain to www. I read many articles which give me a trick to do it using .htaccess file but as i was using a shared hosting with IIS server so it was not possible using the .htaccess file. luckily i stumbled to a post which give me a code that i need to put in my web.config file to redirect my non www to www domain. As per the instruction mentioned in the post i put the code in my web.config file but nothing happened. I start reading other posts on internet, all of the web guru’s were suggesting the same thing. Than i realized there is something wrong with my server. When i did a whois lookup using a website who.is i came to know that i was using IIS 6.
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After finding out my IIS version, i started reading few more posts about how to do 301 redirect using web.config in IIS 6. After reading few posts i find out that you can’t redirect the non www domain to www using the code that i had in IIS 6. The redirection was only possible in IIS 7 with the code that i had.
I put up a request to my host to transfer my site to a IIS 7 server. My host did the job in less than 2 hours. I put the code and it worked. So here is the code that i used to do 301 redirect for my asp.net website.
Requirements For The Below Code to Work:
- web.config file
- IIS 7 Server
- Windows 2008
<system.webserver>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name=”Redirect to WWW” stopprocessing=”true”>
<match url=”.*”></match>
<conditions>
<add input=”{HTTP_HOST}” pattern=”^yourdomainname.com$”></add>
</conditions>
<action type=”Redirect” url=”http://www.yourdomainname.com/{R:0}” redirecttype=”Permanent”>
</action></rule><rule name=”Default Document” stopprocessing=”true”>
<match url=”(.*?)/?default\.aspx$”>
<action type=”Redirect” url=”{R:1}/”>
</action></match></rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webserver>
Don’t forget to replace yourdomainname.com with your real domain name.
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