Hi Tom,

As a prelude to my question, we have read all the stuff on your site and Bruce's (both have unbelievably HUGE amount of SEO information).  We have tested URLRewriter and Bruce's URL Master.  Unless we are mistaken, we can't see a solution for our problem.

We are moving single portals from an old hosting company to a new one. There are are already multiple portals on the new DNN installation. so tabIDs are already set in stone. For the site being transferred, they have been properly indexed by all the search engine and the old page number are out there.  But, of course, the page number will longer exist (or be on a different portal).  Just by default, DNN will send the person to the home page (At least they get to the site!).  However, a far better solution would be to send them to the exact new page (new tabID).   The sites we are moving have the same page names, just new numbers.

Based on your blog, we tried the URLRewriter and it correctly fixed the non-www to www problem, but we don't see how we can put and entry in for each page. We tried several attempts to no avail. We also downloaded the trial version of URLmaster, but the option for 'deleted' pages is to redirect to the home page or just cough up a 404.

Since the new site will have a new sitemap.aspx, the new pages will eventually be indexed, but what is the best way to add 301s for the old tabIDs to the new tabIDs? Or is there one?

Thanks for all the great information on your site.

Bob

Just to make sure I understand your problem correctly, you've got an existing portal indexed with a set of tabId's that no longer match the new install, because the new install is on a different installation.

so, indexed and 'out there' are URls that look like this:

domain.com/mypage/tabid/66/default.aspx

and the relevant, new version of that page is this:

domain.com/mypage/tabid/123/default.aspx

If that is correct, then I can help you out without having to delve into all sorts of regexes and other things.

With the Url Master module, you can set up any url to be used with any DNN page.  That url can either just show the page (a 200 status) or it can redirect that page.

So, using the above example, all you need to do with the Url Master module is go into the 'admin->page urls' page.  Select the 'mypage' page in the left hand side list.  Then, add a new Url, and type into the Url box : /mypage/tabid/66/default -select '301' as the http status type  - then click on 'apply changes'.

Now try out your 'old' url.  It should issue a 301 redirect to your 'new' url.  Note that it shoudl also redirect to the human friendly version 'mypage.aspx' rather than mypage/tabid/123/default.aspx

Any other questions, let me know.  You can also start up a thread on the support forum at http://www.ifinity.com.au/PRoducts/Support_Forums/

-Bruce