header 301 not working with IE

Anon

I am moving a few individual pages (not entire site) that are currently indexed in Google, etc. I would like to use PHP to send a 301 header

<?php
header ('Status: HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently');
header ('Location: http://mysite.com/newdir/newfile.php');
exit();
?>

It works fine in Opera, but not in IE or Netscape. I found a mention of a similar problem on Microsofts site with an ASP fix, but I can not find a PHP/Javascript fix.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q193489

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Mike

van__

Well, who gave the fix?

Did you say Microsoft?
And when was the last time that Microsoft just handed the open source community a fix to a problem it didn't have to?

By just leaving the fix for ASP they can say, only ASP allows x-feature.

If they really wanted to fix it, they would have issued a patch for the browser.

think about it 🙂

Anon

I have to agree with Van on this one, Microsoft does not like the open source platforms all that well. They don't like giving fixes for anything that they do not have their hands into.

I can say this though- if your server is set up to support ASp and it does not cost extra to you, you can embed ASP code using PHP or you can just use ASp for that particular function. But I assume that you do not have this capability or you would not have posted on here.

I just did a search and I can't find a real fix either. You might want to try a simple redirect without the 301 heading, this will be picked up by Google anyway, and you are more likely to be picked up by spiders as well.

If you are concerned about your rating on a Google or another search engine or directory, I suggesting taking a look at this site (They have lots of good info for you):

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/