Major Site Change - How Not To Lose Rankings - IIS 6

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I have a corporate site due for a major transition very soon. The site is built in ASP .net and everything is static. It's been established quite a while and I don't want to damage its rankings in the move.

We're moving to a PHP powered platform.

Under IIS 6 I am planning to keep the site and change the host headers so my new php powered one moves into it's place. But do I still use the permanent redirect feature in the IIS manager to direct customers from the .aspx pages to the relevant .php pages?

My main worry is that once the host headers have changed, if you went to one of the old pages' urls, it wouldn't know it used to be there and as such the redirect for that page wouldn't work. Do I have to leave the entire old site in place to redirect it properly?

As always, any help is much appreciated.
 
RoyMi6 said:
If you want to do it perfectly for each page you'd setup a 301 moved permanently redirect to the new URL.

In time you'd then delete the redirects once everything has caught up (i.e. search engines etc)
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Yes, I'd like to do it perfectly. Or at least, by folder. That bit is easy, the IIS manager allows you to set 301 redirects from it for the folders. But, those folders surely must exist under the host header so that if you navigated to the url the redirect is in place?
Dj_Jestar said:
Send a 301 at the root url.
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The root isn't going anywhere though.. it's the same location, just a different page. It's the sub-pages I need to have redirects on.

I think I'm going to have to have the old site still in place for a while and mix it with the Wordpress install so the redirects still exist. Or maybe, I could use the same host header on two sites and simply do the redirects. I don't know if IIS6 is smart enough to handle that.
 
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