Hi,

How can we do a permanent redirection (301) http://www.example.com/index.cfm to http://www.example.com ?

We are on a Windows 2003 VPS.

Thanks

Sure Can.

<cflocation url="http://www.example.com" statuscode="301">

Thanks Jason. Do I put this on the index.cfm file?

Yes, but the only problem is, you will get stuck in an infinite loop since http://www.example.com/ and http://www.example.com/index.cfm are exactly the same.

If you don't specify a file name (and just hit the root), the default document is used (which is usually index.cfm)

The reason i wanted do do it for SEO purposes. have a look at http://www.ragepank.com/redirect-check/ for example.com.

Potential problems on this site

* 4 pages returned a 200 response. This indicates potential for duplicate content problems. Ideally, only http://example.com OR http://www.example.com should return a 200 response.

I have managed to forward non WWW to www using IIS but forwarding index.cfm to root is the problem. I think i need to invest to Helicon's ISAPI rewriter as it did work on the trial program.

With PHP, I'd use the REQUEST_URI variable to determine what page your visitors are using, and if it finds the string index.cfm file, redirect the url without index.cfm ...

http://example.com/index.cfm -> http://example.com/
http://example.com/directory/index.cfm -> http://example.com/directory/

I'm not a coldfusion developer but couldn't this be accomplished in your Application.cfm with a CFIF, and CFHeader?

CGI Environment Variables
CFHeader

Just realized you IIS users don't have this environment variable. Perhaps PATH_INFO has the necessary information?

A comment on the same page that Nate referenced says



So those are what you'd need.