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Setting up redirects on your website

Setup Redirection at web page level

It is good web practice to set up redirects on your old site's webpages, where you may have created a new website to now use. Users may have previously saved the old URL to their Internet Browser favourites that will no longer work, or they will be used to navigating to a certain path in their browser to find the information they want. Redirects are much friendlier than the 'page not found' message, or the user viewing old data.

To place a redirect in an old web page, delete all content on the page and include the code below at the top of your page:

  1. In SharePoint Designer or FrontPage, go into the Code version of your webpage
  2. Insert the following script right at the top of the page
  3. <%@ Language=VBScript %>
    <%
    Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently"
    Response.AddHeader "Location", "http://www.unisa.edu.au/"
    %>
  4. Make sure you change the URL to the page you want users to be redirected to (in the example above the URL to change is "http://www.unisa.edu.au/")
  5. Test the page in the browser
  6. Publish the page.

Requesting Redirection at website level

If there is a need for a whole Website or Virtual pages to be redirected, you can request this be done at server level. The policy is for a 6 month redirect only but if there is a legitimate business case to have a website redirect for longer, please inform the CorpWeb team.

To request a Website redirection please fill in the details at

Requesting Redirection (staff access only)

 

 

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