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Hi John,

This should be an easy one - I want to use the simple rule of checking for the rather rubbish "http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/tabid/354/Default.aspx"

and instead replacing it with just "default.aspx".

My rule is:

http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/tabid/354/Default.aspx 

replace with

http://www.pokerdiy.com/

but this just does not seem to work - if I put http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/tabid/354/Default.aspx into the browser it doesn't replace it. Is it possibly something to do with rule order?

Hi Rodney,

Sorry, this question slipped by me.  The replacements only replace content in the output of your page. A replacement can not be used to rewrite a Url that is put in the address bar of the browser.

You may only need the replacement, but if you want to remove that old Url from the search engin index then you need to do a 301 redirect rule.

Oh, ok I see - thanks John. That would explain why the 301 rules replace the browser address as they are of course doing a redirect.

Hi John,

This is a related question but I can't seem to get this working:
Basically I have an old page (http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/PokerAlerts/tabid/524/Default.aspx) which I want to redirect to http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/PokerFeeds/tabid/524/Default.aspx (DNN throws a fit when you have the word "alert" in a page name!)

I have added a PB module to that tab (ID 524) and set up 2 rules for this - the first is a simple find and replace rule that will change any internal links on PokerDIY to the new URL and the second is a 301 rule that will update the search engines to the new locations.

For simplicity I have turned off the replacement rule. At the bottom of my Poker Feeds page there is a menu bar with the link "RSS Feeds" - this links to the old url of http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/PokerAlerts/tabid/524/Default.aspx. I would expect my 301 rule below to do a redirect to the new URL, but it does not work for some reason:

[PB: IF (Match("[PB:Request.Url]","http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/PokerAlerts/tabid/524/Default.aspx") ) {
[PB: Response.Status("301 Moved Permanently") ]
[PB: Response.AddHeader("Location","http://www.pokerdiy.com/Home/PokerFeeds/tabid/524/Default.aspx")]
[PB: Response.End() ]
} else{
}]

Note, I have put a "1" after the

What am I doing wrong?

Hi Rodney,

For replacements of Urls in the output of your pages it is better to use a Portal Rule instead of a Page Rule so that all pages get the replacement instead of just the one that you have the module on.

For the 301 Redirect Rule, I can't see what you posted because the forum has gobbled up part of the post. 

I actually have a better way to do 301 redirects now which uses the ResourceLocationTable.config file.

I have attached a new DLL, and a sample ResourceLocationTable with a 301 Redirect in it if you want to give it a try.

If you already have some virtual Paths defined then they will be listed in your current ResourceLocationTable.config file, so you will want to just add a node like the one attached instead of replacing the whole file.

Yes, I have been thinking of doing some logging/stats with reports.

It kind of goes against the main purpose of the module (performance), but I still think some useful reporting could be accomplished if someone were willing to "give back" some performance for that.