Comments on: SharePoint 2007 redirect solved: using 301 instead of 302 redirects http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/ Innovation Matters | SharePoint Server MVP Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:43:19 +0200 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Stjepan http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-29593 Stjepan Tue, 06 Oct 2009 07:47:00 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-29593 @Waldek, thanks for a fast reply! I did use UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite in some other ASP.NET 2.0 web apps but not within Sharepoint. I thought that Sharepoint had some feature for this on its own. I'll try implementing the technique you suggested. Thanks again. @Waldek, thanks for a fast reply!
I did use UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewrite in some other ASP.NET 2.0 web apps but not within Sharepoint. I thought that Sharepoint had some feature for this on its own.
I'll try implementing the technique you suggested. Thanks again.

]]> By: Waldek Mastykarz http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-29555 Waldek Mastykarz Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:47:22 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-29555 @Stjepan: You could try URL Rewriting .NET (http://www.urlrewriting.net/149/en/home.html). If I'm right it allows you to define static redirects. @Stjepan: You could try URL Rewriting .NET (http://www.urlrewriting.net/149/en/home.html). If I'm right it allows you to define static redirects.

]]> By: Stjepan http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-29554 Stjepan Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:26:04 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-29554 Hi, How to do a 301 Redirect on actuall pages in Sharepoint? For ex. if my current page is http://mydomain.com/pages/page1.aspx and I change the name of it to http://mydomain.com/pages/lorem-ipsum.aspx, how/where do I make this 301 Redirect? So far I have seen, is that I could keep the old page and make it of a type Redirect Page, pointing to my newly created page. But this is not an option for me. Is it possible to do a propper 301 redirect for pages? Hi,

How to do a 301 Redirect on actuall pages in Sharepoint? For ex. if my current page is http://mydomain.com/pages/page1.aspx and I change the name of it to http://mydomain.com/pages/lorem-ipsum.aspx, how/where do I make this 301 Redirect? So far I have seen, is that I could keep the old page and make it of a type Redirect Page, pointing to my newly created page. But this is not an option for me.
Is it possible to do a propper 301 redirect for pages?

]]> By: Waldek Mastykarz http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-27716 Waldek Mastykarz Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:29:00 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-27716 @Michael: you're absolutely right. Although the approach I described is quite flexible it has some serious limitations - just like you've mentioned. In a real-life scenario, when you know what kind of site you're working with, you can skip some of the checks and assume things like the site is a Publishing Site or the Welcome Page is always default.aspx. These little things should definitely improve the performance of your redirect solution. @Michael: you're absolutely right. Although the approach I described is quite flexible it has some serious limitations – just like you've mentioned. In a real-life scenario, when you know what kind of site you're working with, you can skip some of the checks and assume things like the site is a Publishing Site or the Welcome Page is always default.aspx. These little things should definitely improve the performance of your redirect solution.

]]> By: Michael HOfer http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-27713 Michael HOfer Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:42:45 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-27713 Hi Waldek, while your solutioln is logical and very well structured, it has one huge disadvantage: performance. I've been working in a large intranet project where performance was one of the main concerns. Using the SharePoint publishing API, especially "IspublishingWeb", "IsPublishingPage" etc. and of course the use of SPSite and SPWeb has turned out to be a complete performance breaker. I don't know if you've tested your solution with some load tests, but i assume it will be rather slow if 30 or more users are shooting at the same time for the website. I adressed this topic with an HTTP-Handler that is using the path "/". So if someone comes on "http://intranet/", the handler fires. I've copied Microsoft's logic from VariationRoot.aspx and perform the redirect to the correct page directly in the handler. It is ultra-fast and doesn't need any "costly" Sharepoint objects! If you have more questions about the solution - just let me know! Hi Waldek,

while your solutioln is logical and very well structured, it has one huge disadvantage: performance. I've been working in a large intranet project where performance was one of the main concerns. Using the SharePoint publishing API, especially "IspublishingWeb", "IsPublishingPage" etc. and of course the use of SPSite and SPWeb has turned out to be a complete performance breaker.
I don't know if you've tested your solution with some load tests, but i assume it will be rather slow if 30 or more users are shooting at the same time for the website.

I adressed this topic with an HTTP-Handler that is using the path "/". So if someone comes on "http://intranet/", the handler fires. I've copied Microsoft's logic from VariationRoot.aspx and perform the redirect to the correct page directly in the handler. It is ultra-fast and doesn't need any "costly" Sharepoint objects!

If you have more questions about the solution – just let me know!

]]> By: Waldek Mastykarz http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-24068 Waldek Mastykarz Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:39:57 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-24068 @Geert: great to hear you find it useful. Thank you for posting the updated regex @Geert: great to hear you find it useful. Thank you for posting the updated regex

]]> By: Geert http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-24032 Geert Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:37:08 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-24032 Hi Waldek, First of all, thanks for your code. I did however find a link on the 'Site Settings' page that didn't work anymore after running the compiled dll. It was 'Master Pages and Page Layouts', because it ends with a / in the querystring, but not followed by a page: http://.../_Layouts/RedirectPage.aspx?Target={SiteCollectionUrl}_catalogs/masterpage. The regex doesn't match while actualy it should, since the requestURL does end with a page (RedirectPage.aspx). Possibly there are more links like this one so to avoid this problem I updated the Regex to: ^https?://.*(?/[^/]+\.[^/\.]+(\?.+=.+)?)$ Works fine now. Hi Waldek,

First of all, thanks for your code. I did however find a link on the 'Site Settings' page that didn't work anymore after running the compiled dll. It was 'Master Pages and Page Layouts', because it ends with a / in the querystring, but not followed by a page: http://…/_Layouts/RedirectPage.aspx?Target={SiteCollectionUrl}_catalogs/masterpage.

The regex doesn't match while actualy it should, since the requestURL does end with a page (RedirectPage.aspx). Possibly there are more links like this one so to avoid this problem I updated the Regex to:
^https?://.*(?/[^/]+\.[^/\.]+(\?.+=.+)?)$

Works fine now.

]]> By: Waldek Mastykarz http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-8623 Waldek Mastykarz Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:30:46 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-8623 @drew: Name is the unique name of the module you can define yourself and type points to the class name (including namespace). @drew: Name is the unique name of the module you can define yourself and type points to the class name (including namespace).

]]> By: drew http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-8615 drew Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:46:07 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-8615 Where does the value name= in your web.config come from? Where does the value name= in your web.config come from?

]]> By: Waldek Mastykarz http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/comment-page-1/#comment-2515 Waldek Mastykarz Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:42:46 +0000 http://mastykarz.nl/blog/2008/01/21/sharepoint-2007-redirect-solved-using-301-instead-of-302-redirects/#comment-2515 Hi Tim, Thank you for your feedback. The Variation logic I have used is only hard coded for the default variation. Many of our customers don't like the idea of being forced to relying on the User Agent Language: many people doesn't even know they can set the primary language in their browser. As they are Dutch organizations, they want their visitors to be redirected to the Dutch version by default. Did you try to debug the code? Is there a chance you have modified a little too much? Having placed the dll in the BIN and running with elevated privileges has nothing to do with each other as far as I know. The only thing is, you need to either include CAS policy for your code or set the trust level to Full if running custom code from the BIN directory. Have you tried running a simpler version of the redirect module, like always redirecting to a certain page no matter the URL? It would help you check whether the module gets attached correctly. Good luck, Waldek Hi Tim,

Thank you for your feedback.

The Variation logic I have used is only hard coded for the default variation. Many of our customers don't like the idea of being forced to relying on the User Agent Language: many people doesn't even know they can set the primary language in their browser. As they are Dutch organizations, they want their visitors to be redirected to the Dutch version by default.

Did you try to debug the code? Is there a chance you have modified a little too much?

Having placed the dll in the BIN and running with elevated privileges has nothing to do with each other as far as I know. The only thing is, you need to either include CAS policy for your code or set the trust level to Full if running custom code from the BIN directory.

Have you tried running a simpler version of the redirect module, like always redirecting to a certain page no matter the URL? It would help you check whether the module gets attached correctly.

Good luck,

Waldek

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