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One of the most visited entries on this blog is How to 301 redirect .htm or .html Urls to DotNetNuke pages.  From that post, I get a lot of enquiries how to do this with .asp Urls.  I have usually just told people to substitute the .htm in the post with .asp, but I’ve decided to dedicate another post just to the task of converting/redirecting ‘Classic’ ASP urls over to a DotNetNuke website.  It would seem a lot of people are replacing old ASP websites with a DotNetNuke based system (a good choice!) so this should be the final word in keeping them pointed in the right direction.

So without further discussion, let’s get straight into the steps.

Step 0 : Backup You’ll be (probably) be making changes to your web.config file, and it’s possible to mess up your entire site with a misplaced punctuation mark.  Take a copy of that file now and thank yourself later.  You can always delete a backup but you can’t conjure one back from the dead.

Step 1 : Install Ur l Master Module You’ll need the...

Recently, Keivan Beigi posted an article on the DNN Blog about how DotNetNuke 5.5 was faster than DotNetNuke 4.9.5.  This post generated a flurry of emails to my inbox wondering whether the new version of Url Master compared to this.   I have already posted about the relative performance of Url Master and the standard DotNetNuke Url Rewriter which showed that the Url Master module was faster than the standard DotNetNuke Url Rewriter/Friendly Url Provider by a small margin.  In that post, my aim was to determine the difference in speed with no-extensions vs .aspx extensions (conclusion : not significant) – finding out that the standard Friendly Url Provider was slower was an unexpected result.

So with the release...