Redirect Traffic from old to new server when you change hosting service

A few missing steps

Daishik Chauhan — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:00:04 GMT

Thanks for this article:

However, you missed a few steps:

1. If the site you are redirecting from is not your default site, you have to specify the same host header on the redirector site. Then when you switch off the old site, the redirector will handle requests.

2. When you add the ISAPI filter in the configuration, there is a checkbox to 'Verify that file exists'. YOU MUST UNCHECK THIS. If you don't, the browser will search for the file in the redirector website and return a 404 error before the server can do the redirect.

re: Redirect Traffic from old to new server when you change hosting service

Ed Sansbury — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 17:02:25 GMT

This looks like a good idea which I can use. Thanks :)

re: Redirect Traffic from old to new server when you change hosting service

Andrew Casad — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:49:50 GMT

Any suggestions on how to do this using PHP?

I am trying to accomplish the same thing, but using Apache and PHP. Thanks!

re: Redirect Traffic from old to new server when you change hosting service

.Net Adventures — Sun, 27 Aug 2006 18:50:19 GMT

In your code you forget about POST data ...