Comments on: Search Engine Friendly 301 Redirect in CFM Coldfusion

By: Willem-Alexander

Willem-Alexander — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:12:38 +0000

Thanks, works great..!!!

By: Karen

Karen — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 20:52:47 +0000

ColdFusion 8: Added the statusCode attribute.

The HTTP status code, as follows:

* 300 HTTP_MULTIPLE_CHOICES: The requested address refers to more than one entity.
* 301 HTTP_MOVED_PERMANENTLY: The page is assigned a new URI. The change is permanent.
* 302 HTTP_MOVED_TEMPORARILY: The page is assigned a new URI. The change is temporary.
* 303 HTTP_SEE_OTHER: The client should try another network address.
* 304 HTTP_NOT_MODIFIED: The requested resource has not been modified.
* 305 HTTP_USE_PROXY: The requested resource must be accessed through the proxy given by the Location field.
* 307 HTTP_TEMPORARY_REDIRECT: The requested data temporarily resides at a new location.

By: Dylan

Dylan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:51:16 +0000

I don’t know an easy way to do this. The script will usually fill in CGI.SCRIPT_NAME with index.cfm whether accessed using / or /index.cfm

By: Jane Galt

Jane Galt — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:47:50 +0000

I’m not able to get requests for http://www.domain.com/index.cfm to 301 redirect to http://www.domain.com.

I’m trying to force the home page to ALWAYS be http://www.domain.com, because right now I can see that Google is indexing both and even assigning different PageRank to each, so I would like to transfer all the PageRank currently going to the index.cfm version of the home page over to the non-index.cfm version. This will ensure all PageRank accrues to one version.

Any code for how to accomplish this?

Thanks

By: Spencer

Spencer — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:29:39 +0000

Thanks Dylan – fixed it by stripping out ‘index.cfm’ from CGI.SCRIPT_NAME where CGI.SCRIPT_NAME contains ‘index.cfm’ but NOT ‘index.cfm?’

Much appreciated,
Spencer

By: Dylan

Dylan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:16:13 +0000

Use the header check at http://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp on both URLs (with and without index.cfm) to check that both are being indexed and not redirected. That’s a tough one as most servers will report to the underlying code they’re at ‘index.cfm’ whether the URL in the address bar is that or not, so you can’t programmatically redirect easily.

One way is to change the code above to detect you’re on the index.cfm page and not to append the page name to the redirect URL.

Anyone have any suggestions?

By: Spencer

Spencer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:44:54 +0000

Very useful code, thanks – and it works fine across an entire site if you slot it into the application.cfm file.

Just one question – any idea how to hide the default ‘index.cfm’ in the redirected URL? If you redirect all mysite.com pages to http://www.mysite.com, someone going to mysite.com will see http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm in the address bar – which means search engines will probably index http://www.mysite.com and http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm as separate pages, when they are infact the same. Any way around this?

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:29:06 +0000

It’s been a while since I worked on a Coldfusion site at the application level. The code above can be included on all files and will achieve the same effect – not the answer you were looking for but…

Or have a look at http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?t=545129 and let me know what code works and I’ll post it here.

By: xomero

xomero — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:02:23 +0000

How can I use this script on the Application.cfm file, I want to run this function in the entire site. Let say redirect full domain A to domain B

By: admin

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:34:47 +0000

The code

sets the return code to 301 – ensure that it is in correctly.

Note if you’re cutting and pasting the code the quotes are being converted to smart quotes. Try hand coding.