Comments on: 301 Redirects With A Zeus Server

By: Paul Steven

Paul Steven — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:32:50 +0000

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

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:18:47 +0000

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?

By: Barbara

Barbara — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:50:13 +0000

Thank you such much for script for www versus non www. It worked instantaneously – and that never happens! First break of the day!

By: Gav

Gav — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:45:33 +0000

Awesome – thanks for your help on this I was pretty much lost until I found this website!

Thanks again your help is much appreciated!

By: admin

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 20:13:08 +0000

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

By: Gav

Gav — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:49:58 +0000

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.

By: John Dixon

John Dixon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:46:54 +0000

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):

By: John Dixon

John Dixon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:36:20 +0000

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

By: John Dixon

John Dixon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:28:52 +0000

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.

By: John Dixon

John Dixon — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 13:24:10 +0000

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