Redirect Website url to VLE

[HCC]

Hi there,

 

I'm after some advice on how best to redirect our school website url to our VLE.

 

Currently our website has a temporary page which redirects to our uniservity VLE after 30 secs. I would like it so it redirects instantly. It would also be great to retain the Website address as it's better than the VLE one

I think the server is IIS, as I tried a .htaccess file and it didn't work. I'm aware I could use a meta-refresh or a frames page, or reduce the countdown to redirect but I've heard all of these are perceived badly by search engines.

 

The website is hosted by RM and I could just send them a change request to 301 redirect to the school-portal address, but I often have to use the webspace to prove we own the domain for certificate requests etc. and this wouldn't keep the sch domain visible.

 

Is there a way to achieve this?

 

Thanks,

[HCC]

Opps forgot to add url adresses

 

Our website URL is Home Page and our VLE address is Hailsham Community College ***

 

 

Thanks,

[Edu-IT]

If you don't want to use a 301 then I think the only other option is to use a standard redirect in a HTML file.

 

The code is:

Edited July 5, 2009 by Edu-IT

[EduTech]

dont matter was a bit slow on submitting that, EduIT beat me lol

 

but tbh, if you have access to the domain account, you could just setup a forwarder for that domain to point to Hailsham Community College **

 

James.

[penfold_99]

Hi there,

 

I'm after some advice on how best to redirect our school website url to our VLE.

 

Currently our website has a temporary page which redirects to our uniservity VLE after 30 secs. I would like it so it redirects instantly. It would also be great to retain the Website address as it's better than the VLE one

I think the server is IIS, as I tried a .htaccess file and it didn't work. I'm aware I could use a meta-refresh or a frames page, or reduce the countdown to redirect but I've heard all of these are perceived badly by search engines.

 

The website is hosted by RM and I could just send them a change request to 301 redirect to the school-portal address, but I often have to use the webspace to prove we own the domain for certificate requests etc. and this wouldn't keep the sch domain visible.

 

Is there a way to achieve this?

 

Thanks,

 

As the question has been answered. i thought i would ask how you getting on with uniservity?

[torry_loon]

You can redirect your page with the following piece of code:

 

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%
Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.school-portal.co.uk/Grouphomepage.asp?GroupId=273775"
%>