Redirection of .asp pages to Vignette pages

Shrishail_Kurundkar

Hello,

 

We are presently migrating a couple of .asp sites to Vignette(DSM). The client wants all existing URL's to redirect to corresponding Vignette pages on live site. Using Automatic Friendly URLs(FURL) feature in V7.6, we have taken care that existing URL's(that don't end with .asp) can be used to access new site pages in Vignette. However, there are some URL's that end with .asp .

 

Please suggest a way whereby we can redirect those .asp pages to relevant Vignette pages.

One option(that works for IIS webserver) is to create a folder structure based on the URL
eg. For http://www.site1.com/aaa/bbb.asp, the corresponding Vignette URL should be http://www.site1.com/aaa/bbb. We created a folder aaa and inside that created bbb.asp; wrote a VB script in this .asp file to redirect present page to desired page.

 

We know that on copying this directory structure to docroot of webserver, this redirection works in IIS web server. Can anyone tell whether doing this with IHS webserver will give desired result / will IHS support files with .asp extension at its root folder? Unfortunately, our 3 environments are not in sync now. We have IIS in Dev and Staging, but IHS in Prod.

 

 Thanks,

Shrishail

Rumy_Driver

IBM HTTP Server (IHS) is IBM's version of the Apache web server.

To perform redirects in Apache there are 2 options:

1. Using mod_rewrite

Advantages: 

This is in httpd.conf

You can use "regex"

Dis-advantages:

You need to restart Apache if you make modifications.

Additional information: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wchelp/v5r6m1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.commerce.esupport.doc/html/Configuration/swg21231659.html

2. Using "vanity map" file

Advantage: 

You build the file on the fly

Changes to the file do not require a restart

Disadvntages:

The redirect URL must be exact i.e. you cannot use "regex"

Additionally, please consult the IBM IHS documentation for all redirect and rewrite information.

Quoted Shrishail Kurundkar (shrishail.k@tcs.com) on 2010/04/13 14:45:

Hello,

 

We are presently migrating a couple of .asp sites to Vignette(DSM). The client wants all existing URL's to redirect to corresponding Vignette pages on live site. Using Automatic Friendly URLs(FURL) feature in V7.6, we have taken care that existing URL's(that don't end with .asp) can be used to access new site pages in Vignette. However, there are some URL's that end with .asp .

 

Please suggest a way whereby we can redirect those .asp pages to relevant Vignette pages.

One option(that works for IIS webserver) is to create a folder structure based on the URL
eg. For http://www.site1.com/aaa/bbb.asp, the corresponding Vignette URL should be http://www.site1.com/aaa/bbb. We created a folder aaa and inside that created bbb.asp; wrote a VB script in this .asp file to redirect present page to desired page.

 

We know that on copying this directory structure to docroot of webserver, this redirection works in IIS web server. Can anyone tell whether doing this with IHS webserver will give desired result / will IHS support files with .asp extension at its root folder? Unfortunately, our 3 environments are not in sync now. We have IIS in Dev and Staging, but IHS in Prod.

 

 Thanks,

Shrishail