Shahin Alborz – EPiServer & ASP.NET developer

Here’s a tiny web.config file for making sure a website is configured to redirect (using 301 status code) to another website, often useful when a redirection to the www.domainname.com version is necessary. (Important for SEO)

Make sure the Windows feauture HTTP Redirection is activated on the server.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://www.yourdomainhere.com" exactDestination="true" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

If you need to pass the querystring forward to the target destination, you need to add $Q after the destination.
To include both path and querystring parameters, change the httpRedirect to the following:

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<httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://www.yourdomainhere.com$V$Q" exactDestination="true" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />

Read more about the parameters:
IIS 6
IIS 7

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