Shaun Mccran

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10
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Y
2010

The SEO way to safely redirect a Page or folder using 301 redirects

In a recent project we are restructuring a site to be more intuitively architected. But what impact will moving the directories or pages have on all that hard earned Search Engine Ranking Optimisation work?

This article deals with how to safely redirect users from an old page or folder to the new URL, and keep Search Engine's informed of your changes without leading them to dead content (Dead content is bad and will adversely affect your Site rankings).

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02
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A
R
2010

Changing the 404 template handler in IIS

You could use a 404 ColdFusion template to handle missing templates, or the onmissingtemplate Application CFC function. Luckily I have a client with half a dozen sites all on the same server, with nothing else on it, so it makes more sense to do this in Internet Information Services.

404 templates are a handy way of masking any site errors or missing templates. Not only are they a cosmetic fix to nasty display errors but they can also seriously help your server security.

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08
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A
N
2010

Windows 2003 Server does not stream F4V videos - adding mime types

With the introduction of Adobe's new .F4v flash wrapper you may find that your server does not respond well to files of the .f4v extension. Mine has been returning a 404 error, despite the file being in the right location.

This appears to be a Mime type error, rather than any coding error. Your server simply does not know what type of file the .f4v is, so we need to tell it.

  • On the Windows 2003 server, open the Internet Information Services Manager.
  • Expand the Local Computer Server.
  • Right-click the local computer server and select Properties.
  • Select the MIME Types tab.
  • Click New and enter the following information:

    view plain print about
    1Associated Extension box: .F4V
    2MIME Type box: video/mp4

  • Click OK

You must then restart the World Wide Web Publishing service, as changes do not take effect until the service is refreshed. At this point you should have working .f4v flash movies.


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