I have an asp.net C# website its url is like abc.com so when the website is loaded for the first time its url that appears is abc.com
But when i visit any other page and come backs to the home page its url become abc.com/home.aspx.
But i want it to be the same i.e abc.com means i want that the url that appears when the website is loaded for the first time and the url that appears for the home page after visiting any other page should be same.
I think url rewriting will be used here but i am not sure neither i have any knowledge how to use it so please help.
By default this happens because of Default Document feature.. You can read about more from http://www.iis.net/learn/web-hosting/web-server-for-shared-hosting/default-documents link.
However once you open us the website abc.com and when you navigate it will surely show you the page name like www.abc.com/home.aspx
And thus what you are looking for seems not possible.
You can use link tag marking the canonical in the header of the page. So, in abc.com/home.aspx you can generate the link tag that tells crawlers that this is a duplicate of abc.com and dont crawl it.
Here are more reference regarding the same subject:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/which-page-is-canonical
http://guyellisrocks.com/coding/adding-a-canonical-link-element-in-asp-net/
If you see your home page when you visit abc.com it looks like your default page is set in place.
You can easily redirect user to "/" and it probably will be enough
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How to get the full referring exact page URL from subdomain (abc.example.com) to www.example.com using HTTP context in C#?
Example:
First I am going to visit – https://abc.example.com/page1/category1
Then navigate and lading to this --> www.example.com/page
In this case, I need to get this URL (referrer) https://abc.example.com/page1/category1 from HTTP context or any other way in C#.
Reviewing the documentation for Referrer-Policy (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy) it seems my only option is to set it to unsafe-url (HTTP).
I need the ability to track the full referring page when navigates from abc.example.com to www.example.com. Is that possible?
I am trying to redirect to a page from the server without referrer. Right now I am doing redirect like this:
I haven't found any overloads for Redirect method or any other ways to redirect without referrer so it's present on the page:
So is there any solution to redirect without referrer in ASP.NET?
You can't handle the referrer from the Redirect method, but you can do one of the following:
Launch the new page on a new window.
Using a meta tag on the content page as follows:
<meta name="referrer" content="no-referrer" />
Or you can add the tag following this answer: How to add meta tag to ASP.Net content page
Move the redirect logic to the front and use rel(attribute specifies the relationship between the current document and the linked document) use:
link
I think you're asking "after my C# server code sends a redirect to the client browser, telling it to go somewhere else, I want the browser to NOT put my site URL into the Referer header when it goes to that somewhere else"
You can't, if it's direct, unless you're redirecting from a secure page (yours) to an insecure page (theirs)
You'll probably have to create an interim page that you redirect to, that has some client side scripting that performs the actual transition (like those "thanks for searching your flight with expedia, please wait while we transfer you to the airline to complete your booking" type pages) because then you can take control of what their browser sends; if you straight refer them, you can't
I have a subdomain that is http://trade.businessbazaar.in . I am dynamically creating urls from database something in this manner http://trade.businessbazaar.in/mycompany. To display details, I have an index.aspx file there,thinking that on every request the index.aspx page will load and display data accodingly. Also, There is a masterpage on the index.aspx page from where i am capturing the text mycompany and query it in database to fetch result. But nothing seems to work.
A genuine link is http://trade.businessbazaar.in/Symparlife. But its unable to load index.aspx. I need a clean approach without any third party dll or rewriters. Directly to push some lines in config and start working. That is url will be the same but index page will get loaded...
In short, i want to say
I need the StackOverflow type clean url mechanism to fetch pages
Thanks in Advance
You can handle the Begin_Request event in Global.asax and add custom code to redirect to index.aspx and convert the parts of the URL into query string arguments. You should use Server.Transfer to keep the URL in the browser.
I'd recommend upgrading to 4.0 and using the Routing enine though. You should check if the standard routing is available as a download for ASP.NET 3.5. I am sure your code will get messy very soon. Been there, done that.
As #Mike Miller mentions in the comments the Routing engine ships with ASP.NET 3.5. You can check the documentation here - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.routing(v=vs.90).aspx
Here is a tutorial on how to use it with Web Forms - http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2009/10/13/url-routing-with-asp-net-4-web-forms-vs-2010-and-net-4-0-series.aspx
For your case the code would be something like:
routes.MapPageRoute("company-index", "/{company}", "~/index.aspx")
And in index.aspx you can access the route value for company like this:
string company = (string)Page.RouteData.Values["company"];
Keep in mind that you'd better add something in the URL before your actual argument (the company name). If you don't you will have problems later on when because you may want to add a URL like "/Login" but then you will have to validate that users can't create a company named "Login". Not how Stack Overflow has "/questions/" before the actual question info in the URL.
Let's say I have a website www.mysite.com and I want it to be a multilingual site. Following are the things I wanna achieve :-
1. When a user visits my website, I want to fetch the user's country's ISO code. Let's say the ISO is "FR".
Now I want the user to be redirected to www.mysite.fr
In case the ISO address can't be fetched, the user will be redirected to www.mysite.com
Now I have used the dll from this site http://ipaddressextensions.codeplex.com/ and used their method which is something like
iso3066code(). BUT I am not able to fetch ISO code based on a user's IP address. What is the best method to fetch the ISO code anyway??
2. I have a differenet master page for different countries. Like for France there is France.master, for Germany there is Germany.master, etc.
What I want is that firstly the ISO Code of the user should be fetched, then the user should be redirected to the site corresponding to the ISO
AND want the corresponding master to load.
Here's a scenario:-
A user from France opens my website by typing "www.mysite.com". Now I want to show the user my site's contents in French so I want him to be redirected to
"www.mysite.fr" AND want the France.master to load for all the pages. What I am doing is check the "Top level domain name" entered by user which is "com" in this case, then I fetch the ISO code
then if ISO exists, user is redirected to "www.mysite.fr"
IN CASE, ISO cant be fetched , "www.mysite.com" will only be opened for the user.
3. How do I redirect the user?? Response.Redirect("http://www.mysite.fr") is failing and giving errors like :-
"Page is not redirecting properly" I tried changing it to Response.Redirect("http://www.mysite.fr", false)
and Response.Redirect("http://www.mysite.fr", true). This didn't work.
4. www.mysite.com and www.mysite.fr aren't two different websites.Just that when is it www.mysite.com, English content will be shown on the website.
When it is "www.mysite.fr", French content can be seen inside the website.
What I did was :-
In the Global.asax file :-
I tried fetching ISO code using that dll above from the site ipaddressextensions. Then I created this Application("UserISO") variable in Global.asax file.((Is this a good approach?))
I needed to make it because I wanted to use this global variable within my Global file itself..In some user defined method.
Then I am setting master page name in a cookie and using this cookie to change master page dynamically for every content page in the Page_PreInit() event.
and lastly I am redirecting the user with " Response.Redirect("http://www.mysite.fr", false)". This response.redirect doesnt work!
Now, AM I on the right path?? I am super confused over how to actually make it work! :(
How do multilingual site redirect their users? Where can I learn about all this ? I have tried and tried and tried but this just won't work!
Lastly, there are not really any domain names set for the site as of now. Running it using the IP address set in the IIS.
So how do I test my site. How do I really go about it. Am I following the correct approach at all??
Please direct me to the right path. ANY help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Belgium has 3 official languages, you can't find my language by just looking at the ip address or the domain.
The best way to find the language of a visitor is to check the language of his browser. You can find it in Request.Userlanguages.
Don't do this. It's really frustrating when you try to assume what language the user speaks. You're bound to get it wrong for someone eventually. Put some small flag icons or the language name choices on your main page in a highly visible place, and let your visitors chose what site/language they want to browse in.
Facebook's main sign in page is a great example of this.
Edit: The best you could probably do is to use the HTTP1.1 Header Accept-Language as a hint, but even then I think you should push back on this requirement of your project.
You get redirect error because the .fr site is probably the same site as .com, but session cookies are only valid for a certain domain which means that Session_OnStart() is invoked on the redirect as well. One way to circumvent this is to override the redirect/ip-lookup somehow, maybe send in a querystring or a specific landing page that you can identify:
www.site.fr/?overrideredirect=true
www.site.fr/redirected.aspx -> which then redirects back to / after Session_OnStart
In order to choose the right master page, you could probably identify which host that was requested and from that override master page in your global.asax, perhaps in the BeginRequest event.
I wanted to know if there is a solution using IIS6 for an application to get rid of the default.aspx text in the url. so for example if a user hits:
www.website.com/default.aspx
the browser only shows:
www.website.com/
No matter what.
It's just for SEO.
I already use UrlRewriting.NET for some rewrites in my app but for I'm not that clever to create a rule for that.
Any help is much appreciate.
Thanks.
Jose
I think ScottGu already has the topic of rewriting in ASP.NET covered: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx.
He covers things such as:
Rewriting using UrlRewriter.net, ISAPI Rewrite
ASP.NET Tricks, posting back (hitting the friendly version of the url)
With your problem I think you need to use a combination of, never linking to 'default.aspx' ie. ONLY link to '/'. Then use Scott's Form Postback browser file to ensure postbacks always hit that same friendly version of the url.
Redirecting 'default.aspx' to '/', which then gets served by 'default.aspx' sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. Just fix your links to ensure you never end up on 'default.aspx' explicitly.
I think the simplest way to change the search results index (assuming it knows about HTTP 301) is to write a little function in your default.aspx's Page_Load that redirects the browser using a 301 Moved Permanently (or 302 Moved Temporarily).
void Page_Load(...) {
if(Request.Path.EndsWith("default.aspx", true/*case-insensitive*/, null)) {
Response.StatusCode = 301;
Response.StatusDescription = "Moved Permanently";
Response.Headers.Add("Location", "/");
HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest(); // end the request
}
// do normal stuff here
}
If you have something to do URL rewriting, then all you need to do its ensure that your links point to the correct URL.
If you don't fix your links, its up to the browser to decide if it wants to display the actual link it requested.
If you would really like to do a dodgy job, you can use some javascript to make the address bar of the browser display whatever you like, even if its invalid.
If default.aspx is set as the default document to serve in IIS, and all your internal site links contain URL's without the default.aspx then I think that should do the trick.
Although the user can still type in default.aspx, search engine spiders should just pick up the friendlier URL's from your link href attributes.
The way I would do it is to use Application_BeginRequest in public class Global : System.Web.HttpApplication and check the HttpContext.Current.Request.URL for default.aspx, and then use HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect from there if you find it.
The downside is having a redirect is not always so great and this isn't going to work if you are posting data to that default.aspx page. But you can't simply trick the browser into showing a different url, though you can tell ASP.NET to serve whatever page you want for any request.