IIS URL Rewrie / Redirection?

[FN-GM]

Hi,

 

I am considering the options about moving our Moodle instal. The current URL is:

 

http://www.schoolwebsite.com/vle

 

I would like to move it to

 

http://vle.schoolwebsite.com/

 

The main school website lives on

 

http://www.schoolwebsite.com

 

when moving the VLE it would have a new URL. Using the the IIS rewrite module if someone goes to a page on the old URL will that be able to take them to the new page URL automatically please? Basically i dont want to leave lots of dead links when the move takes place.

 

Thanks

[FN-GM]

Anyone please?

[tom_newton]

Depends how hard you want it to be.

Easy option: stick a page with a meta refresh to vle.schoolweb... on /vle - then anyone with a bookmark to the homepage will be sorted

Middlin' option: rewrite all accesses to /vle/* to the homepage of vle.

Hardest: I don't know IIS, but in apache you can do a rewrite rule to thoroughly change something... can you go cross-domain? I don't know. How do yhou do it in IIS... err.. http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-the-url-rewrite-module/ <-- looks like a fine start

 

be careful though not to rewrite anything with a form post, because that might go squiff.