If you are using Parallel’s ( was Webhost Automation’s ) HELM control panel, you might be scratching your head on how to get HELM to set up a 301 permanent redirect to a URL.
We scratched our heads on it for a while too, and frankly, we stumbled up one the answer quite by accident.
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Though rare, every now and again it is necessary to change the domain name of a site – say someone finally just got that domain name they’ve been after for years, for example.
However, how to change it without losing all of the search engine indexing that existed on the old site . . . especially if the URLs already indexed in search engines contained query strings? If we just do a typical permanent / 301 domainn redirect, all of those pages that used query strings to provide content will simply redirect to the home page of the new domain, which would be dismal for Search Engine Optimization, affiliate links, back links, and other sources of traffic.
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As we were looking at blogging as a new Internet Marketing vehicle/medium for our clients to take advantage of, we followed the rest of the SEO herd to WordPress. All of the SEO’s that are promoting blogging to their clients seem to prefer WordPress ( with what seems to be good reason, but that is a topic for another post ), and what’s more, pretty much every blog we looked at worth looking at had the tell-tale signs of a hosted WordPress application ( WordPress.org as opposed to the WordPress.com option ).
So, to make that long story short, we settled on WordPress as the blogging application we would recommend to our own clients.
However, WordPress is a PHP/MySQL application, and we know what that means . . . . it would be “happiest” in a “LAMP” ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP ) environment while we run Windows, IIS servers supporting MySQL & PHP . . . but even though WordPress is a pretty darned sophisticated application, we wanted to prove that we can run it just as well on a Windows servers.
And, of course, we hit some bumps.
It’s not news at all that LAMP ( Linux, Apach, MySQL, PHP ) servers handle many things via mod_rewrite and .htaccess.
Frankly, we’ve been jealous of what can be done so simply on a LAMP server via a .htaccess file that is just NOT so simple at all to do on a Windows server via IIS.
However, we’re never daunted . . . there is always a way!
Querying this subject via search engines will likely leave on with the impression that it just can’t be done as easily on a Windows/ISS server as it can be done on a LAMP server . . . . but the brilliant minds at HeliconTech.com have cracked the nut! And WMS is righgt behind them.