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nggiven
Joined: Aug 28, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Aug-28 21:33
Hello All,
My main home page no longer sits at my site root. Because of some content management software, it is now at /portal/site/ .
When we installed this software, we simply did a vbscript response.redirect to /portal/site/ . After looking into it, this is just doing a "Temporarily Moved" redirect (302).
So, I'm going to have this content management software installed for the next 3-5 years, I should be doing a permanent redirect (301), right?
My other question is this: I have two domains that server the EXACT same content out of the same folder on my webserver. So my current 302 redirect uses a relative url to point to /portal/site/.
So, if I change it to a 301 redirect to go to /portal/site/ is it okay if I use a relative url? That's not going to hurt my rankings is it? (I guess I'm just trying to ask, which is better for a 302 redirect: an absolute url or a relative one? (Or does it even matter?).
Thanks!
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Nathan
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bhartzer
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Joined: Jun 08, 2000
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Posted: 2006-Aug-28 22:11
My main home page no longer sits at my site root. Because of some content management software, it is now at /portal/site/ .
So fix that--you should be able to change the default home page of your domain in your web server's settings. In apache, it's in the http.conf file.
If you cannot figure it out or decide not to change it, the it absolutely positively needs to be a 301 Permanent Redirect from domain.com to /portal/site/.
As long as the server header returns a 301 code then you should be fine. But, it's far better to change the server's default home page setting.
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nggiven
Joined: Aug 28, 2006
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Posted: 2006-Aug-30 14:53
Okay, I'll look into changing our CMS engine.
If that can't be done, it's okay that we put a relative URL for our permanent redirect, right?
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g1smd
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Joined: Jul 28, 2002
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Posted: 2006-Aug-30 20:19
Set the server up so that the web_root is the same as the folder where the site actually is.
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