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    • CoGri
      CoGri Subscriber last edited by

      Hi all,

      I'm trying to migrate my current website over to wordpress however my current website is ASP.NET and obviously Wordpress uses PHP.

      Is it possible to perform a 301 redirect from a asp.net to a php?

      Or do you need to convert the asp.net language into php?

      Or something different?

      I welcome your thoughts?

      Regards,

      Thomas Rochford

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      • AlanMosley
        AlanMosley last edited by

        Yes that's correct, or even on the same hosting account

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        • CoGri
          CoGri Subscriber last edited by

          Many thanks guys, I think I get what your saying.

          From what I understand I could just do this...

          I build up a new wordpress website on a different hosting account. Within the .htaccess file I create my 301's. Then once I point the domain from the old hosting and website to my new one everything should work fine?

          Again many thanks for your help.

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          • iugac
            iugac last edited by

            Hello Thomas,

            sorry for my late answer.

            As Alan was saying, the web server intercepts a request before it serves a page. If it finds a rule that redirects that request, there is no need for the files to exist. So you would manage the rules for the request that you want to redirect on the same server where the old domain is located. If you are redirecting to the same domain, then yes, this means the rule will be on the same server that manages that domain. When somebody looks for your page, then the DNS would point to your server's IP. After that, the request is sent to that IP and the web server will try to serve whatever is needed for that request. But if you successfully add a rule for that specific request (let's say "www.mydomain.com/page1") to be sent to another URL (let's say "www.mydomain.com/newpage"), then the server will redirect that request.

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            • AlanMosley
              AlanMosley last edited by

              Yes.

              you don't need both sets of files.

              before the request reaches your pages, it is intercepted by the webserver and checks for any 301 rules. if it finds one for that url it will redirect, even if neither of the files exist. this all happens early in the request life cycle.

              But as I said before, make things easy for yourself, only 301 the pages that had external links

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              • CoGri
                CoGri Subscriber last edited by

                Hi guys,

                Thanks for replying. Wondered however how you would get both the files to sit on the same hosting?

                I know that windows can take both PHP and ASP.NET but I have heard that windows hosting for WordPress is not as straight forward as Linux. Is it still possible to perform 301 redirects for both sets of files in Linux?

                Regards,

                Tom

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                • AlanMosley
                  AlanMosley last edited by

                  I would find any pages that's have external links, and only 301 them, as there is no use 301'ing pages that have no external links, you can 301 any url you want, the language is not relevant.

                  What server are you on IIS(Microsoft) or Apache? For Apache then use .htaccess for iis use web.config

                  Me myself I would not be moving to WordPress, you will end up with many more crawling problems

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                  • iugac
                    iugac last edited by

                    Hello Thomas,

                    I did not code ASP.NET, but from my understanding, a 301 redirect does not need to be connected to the language you write code in. You could perform a 301 redirect from your web server for example (in Apache you could use the htaccess file).

                    Anyways, I think you should redirect from your asp.net file to php and everything will work ok. You can check the link below for some code examples I have found searching on Google.

                    http://www.webconfs.com/how-to-redirect-a-webpage.php

                    http://www.beyondink.com/howtos/301-redirect.php

                    Hopefully this helps!

                    Cristian

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