redirect visitors to different area of website using various methods?

Question

I need to redirect the user to my blog which is in ../blog

When the user types in www.website.com it should load the blog which is in www.website.com/blog

I have a default.aspx page in the root which i no longer use and I have tried added a web.config file in the root with the following to redirect the user to the blog but its not working:

<configuration>
  <location path="blog/default.aspx">
    <system.webServer>
      <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://www.website.com/blog/Default.aspx" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
    </system.webServer>
  </location>
</configuration>

What would be the fastest way to redirect the user, I thought about getting rid of my own redundant default.aspx page and creating a new page and using JavaScript to redirect. But which method is the easiest and fastest?

I'm no expert, but it looks like you are redirecting from `blog/Default.aspx`; shouldn't that be `/Default.aspx`? — fguchelaar, Mar 01 '13 at 10:40
Oh I see what you are saying. I will change it and see if it makes a difference. — PriceCheaperton, Mar 01 '13 at 10:43
I have just realised that adding another web.config in the root stops the blog working... strange behaviour. Looks like ill go for the meta tag solution in a new default page! — PriceCheaperton, Mar 01 '13 at 10:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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use meta tag . For More Info on Meta Tag.

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="2;url=yourUrl">

in c# From This Answer.

var keywords = new HtmlMeta { Name = "keywords", Content = "one,two,three" };
                Header.Controls.Add(keywords);

edited May 23 '17 at 11:43

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answered Mar 01 '13 at 10:37

Ravi Gadag

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Thanks Ravi, the meta tag solution is a bit slow, it seems to load the old home page then redirect. Do you think I should make a new default.htm page, would it be faster then? – PriceCheaperton Mar 01 '13 at 10:48

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '13 at 11:12

There are countless ways to do this:

In your old default.aspx:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=/blog/default.aspx">

(note the 0 for zero (or close to zero) delay time)

The same in .Net, might be a bit faster:

Either:

Server.Transfer("~/blog/default.aspx"); //Browser doesn't see new URL

or

Response.Redirect("~/blog/default.aspx");

Or catching all attempts to access pages outside of /blog in your global.asax.cs Application_BeginRequest event. You need to have .Net set as your default interpreter for all pages for this one. This would be overkill though, in my opinion.

Accepted as this was the better answer. Nothing personal to the other guy Ravi... Cheers for your help and explanation my friend. — PriceCheaperton, Mar 01 '13 at 11:16

redirect visitors to different area of website using various methods?

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