Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on a site powered by a Zeus Web Server. Part of the work undertaken was upgrading the site from it’s old ecommerce design querylink structure to new clean, seo friendly urls and also sort out any canonicalisation conflicts that were present.
Unlike Apache, where there is a vast array of information available online for people wanting to run redirect scripts – there is a distinct lack of articles relating to Zeus in respect of redirects. So, I thought I would output the proper way to code redirect scripts for a Zeus server.
Canonical issues: www vs. non-www for a Zeus Server, replace yourdomain with the name of your domain.
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#— matches any subdomain except www, be redirected to ‘www’ —
match IN:Host into $ with ^yourdomain\.co\.uk$ |
301 redirection script for a Zeus Server
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#— 301 Redirect —
match URL into $ with ^/old.html$ |
And that’s it, have fun and remember these redirect scripts are for the Zeus Server only. Please remember and always test your work when running redirect scripts.
Where should I place this text?
I suspect Zeus won’t read it from the .htaccess file.
I normally create a file called rewrite.script and place your redirects in there then upload it to the server Frank.
If that doesn’t work contact your hosting company and explain that you need the rewrite script engine to be turned on in your Zeus server.
Hope this helps.
Paul
Thank you. I’ve been scratching my head with this one for a few days now. In the spirit of sharing, this is the script I used when I migrated a site from IIS and .asp to .php – it rewrites URIs and preserves querystring values.
# Rewrites URIs with .asp suffix to .php and preserves querystring values
insensitive match URL into $ with ^(.*)\.asp(.*)$
if matched
set URL = $1.php$2
set RESPONSE = 301
set OUT:Location = %{URL}
set BODY = Please try here instead\n
goto END
endif
It’s translated a bit of code that has a link on it. I’m just going to try it with entities instead:
set BODY = Please try here instead\n
Otherwise (in case this doesn’t work either) just:
set BODY = Moved
as in the examples you gave.
And finally, the reverse of your script, which converts www into non-www addresses:
# Rewrites www to non-www equivalent addresses
insensitive match IN:Host into $ with ^www\.[domain]\.co\.uk$
if matched
match URL into $ with ^/(.*)$
if matched
set URL = [domain].co.uk/$1
set OUT:Location = %{URL}
set OUT:Content-Type = text/html
set RESPONSE = 301
set BODY = Please try here instead\n
goto END
endif
endif
Same thing happened with the set URL = line. There was a dollar sign missing after the final forward slash and before the number 1. Hopefully a few bits of Unicode will help (fingers crossed as there’s no preview):
Hi,
I have a site which has directories that I would like to use 301 Redirects with as follows:-
www mysite.com/categories/
www mysite.com/products/
Is it possible to place a rewrite.script within each of these folders to basically do two things:-
1 – Redirect the user to www mysite.com
2 – Tell Google that the directory has permanently removed
Does anyone have any idea on how this would be achieved – thanks again.
Gav the script above should handle that for without any worries, here’s a further example of what you should be doing…
#— 301 Redirect —
match URL into $ with ^/categories$if matched
set OUT:Location = http:// www mysite.com/
set OUT:Content-Type = text/html
set RESPONSE = 301
set BODY = Moved
goto END
endif
I have placed spaces in this line : set OUT:Location = http:// www mysite.com/ to stop it linking out to 404 error please close up the spaces before you run your code
Awesome – thanks for your help on this I was pretty much lost until I found this website!
Thanks again your help is much appreciated!
Thank you such much for script for www versus non www. It worked instantaneously – and that never happens! First break of the day!
Great post.
If I had 8 crawl errors on my site because I move stuff into a webfolder – would I need to write a 301 redirect for ‘each’ URL and place it in the rewrite.script file or can I write 1 that covers them all?
Hi Liam, it depends, if your not bothered about passing the existing pagerank or pagestrength to the new pages then you could do just a folder redirect, however, if you want to hold onto some pagestrength then I would advise 8 singular redirects to help accomodate any incoming or inbound links you have pointing to the site (although, tbh, to get the full credit always try and get the 3rd party that is linking to you to repoint the link to you new destination).
Hope this helps,
Paul