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Mobile redirects fail from domain.com to www.domain.com

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tony bonn

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1/9/2021 8:37 AM

    when i navigate to mydomain.com on my phone browser, or use a 3d party speed test, i land on the iis home page. when i do the same on my windows browser - eg edge - i end up on www.mydomain.com as desired.

    in dnn site settings, i have created an alias for mydomain.com and set site alias mapping mode to redirect.
    on my server, i created a url rewrite rule (using url rewrite module 2.1) to map non www urls to www.mydomain.com - at least i think that i have. yet mobile devices do not redirect.

    does anyone have any recommendations on getting mobile url requests to go to www.mydomain.com?

    ps - i have an ssl certificate for www.mydomain.com. not sure if that complicates matters.

    pps - upon further testing, i have found that page speed tests - eg google's - goes to my iis home page for both desktop and mobile emulation. and i have reproduced the problem by using a different browser and clearing cache.






    Justin C

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    1/9/2021 10:57 AM
      Can you post the XML of the redirect rule from the web.config that is in place for the non-www to www?





      tony bonn

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      1/9/2021 5:24 PM

        this code snippet is from the app.config for dnn - added by the url rewrite module.

        hmmmm - not sure how to add xml excerpts. looks like it is disallowed






        tony bonn

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        1/9/2021 5:27 PM

          i don't know how to show xml. thanks any way






          tony bonn

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          1/9/2021 6:40 PM
            i figured out the problem. i needed to add 2 more bindings to my iis website. i added one for port 80 and one for 443 and left the host blank. i had thought that i could not do that because my certificate is for www.mydomain.com. not sure if i still need the rewrite/redirect - so will experiment, but at least the page speed test is getting to the right place.

            one issue is that my browser url is showing www.mydomain.com/default.aspx whereas before it showed just www.mydomain.com. is there a way to get rid of the default.aspx or change it to www.mydomain.com/home?





            tony bonn

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            1/9/2021 9:45 PM
              and i resolved my final issue concerning url display by clearing cache. this lesson has turned out to be valuable and hard earned. many of the frustrations i encountered were due to caching problems. so i now keep a dedicated browsers whose main purpose is be called upon to have its cache completely deleted for testing. i usually like to keep history etc, but i have no love for the guinea pig browser.
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