Hi,

 

We currently have our website built in ASP, the time has come to redesign it. Im going to be doing this but in PHP. There are no dynamic urls on this site, and i wont be keeping the page names the same, for SEO purposes.

 

We have good seo rankings at the moment, so am keen to keep these (obviously) Question is if i was to convert all the pages over on the same server, could i just 301 redirect every asp page to the equivilant php page?

 

For example:

 

http://www.mysite.com/page1.asp to http://www.mysite.com/page1abc.php

 

How would i go about this tho, if the default page is in ASP, as i could not simply add a Htaccess form could i? and surely this would mean doubling up the php pages alongside all the asp pages on the server?

 

If i did change servers, what would be the best way to redirect these pages? I think for now we will probably stay on the same server though.

 

Thanks for your help in advance!!

My advice? Change server. PHP works best on Apache under Linux, and it sounds like you'll be needing mod_rewrite, which is a lot more powerful and flexible than the IIS rewrite module.

My advice? Change server. PHP works best on Apache under Linux, and it sounds like you'll be needing mod_rewrite, which is a lot more powerful and flexible than the IIS rewrite module.

 

 

Thanks for the swift response - does that mean im better off transferring the files (or creating the new site from scratch) on a linux server, point the current domain to this new server, and create 301 redirects for each individual asp page to the equivilant php page in the new htaccess file, as they will be named quite differently?

 

Thanks

Yup, that's pretty much the shape of it.