The tabid number to some pages on my DNN portal have changed and - as a consequence - I now need to redirect any requests for an 'old' version of the page to the 'new' version of that page (i.e. which has the new tab ID).

The most effiicient way to do this (certainly in the eyes of search engines) is to use a "301 redirect". As I am in a shared hosting environment I need to do this directly on the page and from this page I discovered that the following code should do the necessary on the .aspx pages in question.

private sub Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)

   Response.Status = "301 Moved Permanently"
   Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.new-url.com")

end sub

I have therefore copy and pasted this into notepad, saved it as default.aspx. I then needed to 'reproduce' the folders of the URL of the 'old' page so - for example - in order. to 'reproduce' the URL www.mydomain.com/dnn/oldpage/tabid/89/ I created relevant 'extra' folders named 'oldpage', which contained a folder called 'tabid' which contained a folder called '89') and then I placed the freshly created default.aspx file in the 'reprodcued' folder '89'). However when I requested the default.aspx file it did not redirect as I expected (it instead redirected the user to the root of my DNN portal, not to the specific tab I indicated in the code as the 'new' URL).

Am I trying to do this the right way or is there soemthing I am doing wrong?

• Is the 301 code I am using the right code for a .net app such as DNN?
• Am I right to just copy and paste this code into notepad with no other additions?
• Is there a step I am missing?

All advice is appreciated.

Thanks.

eoghano