Dynamic pages -windows server
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Hi all,
Hope I get an answer on clients site which I believe is hosted on a windows shared server. The output of the site is something like this:
http://www.domainname.com/catering-sub.asp?maincate_id=6&maincate_name=Barware
I am looking to get a URL friendly output for the site - as far as my knowledge I believe Htaccess doesn't work on this type of hosting? thoughts?
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
You are right. For Windows server, .htaccess file doesn't work. You need some setting in your windows IIS server. URL writing facility is not available for less than 7 version. If your IIS version is IIS7 or greater then you can solve all SEO related problem by given link http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/04/20/tip-trick-fix-common-seo-problems-using-the-url-rewrite-extension.aspx
Hope my answer will solve you problem.
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Well regardless of what type of server they are on, those URLs were generated by whatever program the previous developer used to create the site.
I would re-do the site or at least rename all of the pages. You can do a sitewide or page by page redirect in a Windows IIS Server. It's actually much simpler to do if you have server access (which is rare/impossible when using a 3rd party hosting provider but only time i've ever messed with IIS servers was running them in-house on our own server farms..)
Anyway, it's literally a setting in the domain itself on the IIS platform (which looks a lot like Explorer). You can contact the web host to do this, or if you're lucky enough to have access just google IIS 301 but be sure to note what version of IIS you are running. I was on IIS 7 for example and everything was much different than 9.
The longest/hardest part of this will be redoing all the links and renaming all of the pages. Quite the project. I think it'd be a great time to reassess the site as a whole.. not sure what is working well or not but might as well consider all of it at this point.
Hope I'm being helpful...
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