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Canonical name redirects in Godaddy?

I have a website "mywebsite.com" and I would like to do a 301 redirect of "http://mywebsite.com" to "http://www.mywebsite.com" (for the usual SEO purposes).

I am running IIS7, however there is an ISA server firewall in front of the site, which seems (as per this article, though his solution did not work for me -- http://mrvirtual.de/2009/07/04/url-rewrite-through-isa-server-ends-in-a-loop/) to be causing the rewrite rule to go into an infinite redirect loop.

DNS is being managed by Godaddy (TotalDNS). Is there a way to configure DNS, or domain forwarding, so that I can accomplish the redirect prior to reaching the ISA firewall / IIS? This seems easier (if possible), than trying to track down and fix the ISA, IIS problem (though if someone has a solution for that, I'll take it).

Solution

  • First result for "IIS redirect to www":

    http://www.xoc.net/works/tips/domain.asp