URL Redirection from a html page to an .aspx page

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URL Redirection from a html page to an .aspx page

8.5k views Asked by this-Me At 25 October 2012 at 12:24

I have a requirement where i have to use url redirection in my legacy web page (basically its a complete static html page).

The requirement for me is to redirect the user everytime, from the static html page to a .aspx page

i.e if my earlier page were found to be at

http://web.vatsag.com/app/en/downloadsite.htm

then i have to redirect to the following page (.aspx)

http://web.vatsag.com/app/newdownloadsite.aspx

I went through the following links, which talks mainly redirection w.r.t ASP.NET

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/2538/URL-Rewriting-with-ASP-NET

However,

Since the pages are html. I presume by default not handled by the ASP.NET ISAPI filter

Can anyone help me in achieving the same using any of the alternatives specified below ?

Any particular setting that could be done on the IIS Side
Programmatically achieving redirection using Meta Refresh (although i have heard this method is highly discouraged)

Thanks in advance

VATSAG

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William The Dev On 25 October 2012 at 12:27

between the head tags, put this code.

<head>       
    <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;URL='http://web.vatsag.com/app/newdownloadsite.aspx'" />    
  </head>

That will redirect after 2 seconds to http://web.vatsag.com/app/newdownloadsite.aspx

Content= Number of seconds to refresh URL = url path to redirect to The reason meta refreshes are discouraged is because spammers use them to redirect users from shell sites that have lots of keywords to non-legitimate sites. So search engines blacklist sites that use that meta refresh as belonging to spammers.

Razvan Trifan On 25 October 2012 at 12:35

You can use the ISAPI Rewrite and let the IIS server redirect your .html page. Use the following rule:

RewriteRule ^app/en/downloadsite.htm$ /app/newdownloadsite.aspx [NC,R=301,L]

**Prashant Lakhlani** · Accepted Answer · 2012-10-25 12:27:12

Prashant Lakhlani On 25 October 2012 at 12:27 BEST ANSWER

There are different options of doing so described here. You can basically add a meta tag to refresh the page after a second to aspx page or use javascript.

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