Http 301 redirection Vs domain names

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Subject: Http 301 redirection Vs domain names

Feedback Type: Question

Product Area: Domino Server

Technical Area: Administration

Platform: Windows

Release: 8.5.1

Reproducible: Not applicable

Hi,

I have many different domain names that goes to the same web site. I want to redirect (301) some of those domains to a particular domain name, so that our Page Rank will be combined by search engines (instead of being split).

For example, we could have those domains:
domain1.com
domain1.ca
domain1.us
domain2.com
domain2.ca
domain2.us

Those are going to the same web site.
I want the last five domains to be redirected permanently (301) to the first domain name(domain1.com), which should be our primary domain for this web site.

In the past, I tried to do this with Domino, but it was impossible to do... so I had to use IIS as the front-end server (it was easy to do with IIS)

Now, with R8.5, I noticed there's a new check box "Send 301 Redirect", so I thought I could give it another try.

However, when I created a new "Web Site Rule" and selected "Redirection" as the "Type of Rule", I noticed the following info for the "Incoming URL pattern":
"Do not include 'http:' or the host name in the pattern"

So it seems I cannot use this to achieve what I want. Is there a way to redirect permanently (301) some domain names to another specific domain name in Domino?

I can't believe it still cannot be done!!
I must be doing something wrong?

Thanks!

Feedback number WEBB869P66 created by ~Kirk Lopkimanflar on 06/09/2010

Status: Open
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