Alternate Access Mapping and redirection to default site

I have created a SharePoint 2013 farm (single server connected to a SQL DB) from scratch and migrated the old databases to the new server.

http://sharepoint2013 - New Server

I've had old servers that i am doing alternate access mapping for, and pointing those addresses in DNS and have added them to AAM (both FQDN and their shorter DNS name)

http://sharepoint2007 - Old Server
http://sharepoint2010 - Old Server

Here is my issue. if you type any of those addresses they point to the new url, http://sharepoint2013. But if you follow an old link then it brings you to the new site but maintains the url.

ie. "http://sharepoint2007/sites/department/it/default.aspx" doesn't redirect the url to "http://sharepoint2013/sites/department/it/default.aspx", but maintains the original old URL. It allows you to view the data but not manipulate it.

This is an issue when users try to upload data, check out or in files etc. Is there a fix for this or a setting that i may be missing?

Thanks,
Tim

April 17th, 2014 2:33am

can you share your AAM settings, in which zone your URLs are? I am guesing both are in different zones.

do this way. edit public Url > put the New Server url in default zone and remove all other entries.click ok

now add another internal Url, put the old Server url  and select the default zone. click ok

now try and share the results.

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April 17th, 2014 8:10am

My AMM settings are:

- Public zone url - Default is the only field populated with - http://sharepoint2013

-Internal URL's are all sites, new and old, and they point to - http://sharepoint2013

Our SharePoint is purely internal.

Tim

April 22nd, 2014 6:05pm

This is a normal behaviour "by design".

AAM only change links on a returned page (you can see it, if you will go to http://sharepoint2007/sites/department/it/default.aspx - links (not all, unfortunately) will point to sharepoint2013).

Why http://sharepoint2007 works is because it actually redirect you to http://..../default.aspx

How to fight this:

Option 1: create a URL redirect server (with any of public available redirectors) and run it separetely. It will accept any URL and permanently redirect client to a right address.

Option 2: don't use http://sharepoint2007/sites/department/it/default.aspx, use http://sharepoint2007/sites/department/it/ instead.

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April 22nd, 2014 8:43pm

I have a single SharePoint 2013 server now. Could i use this server to perform option one?Basically this is causing an issue where the site populates but different functions done work when the old urls are being used. For instance, check in and out and the + new document functions are either grayed out or return errors.

  • Edited by Gr0leau Wednesday, April 30, 2014 2:58 PM
April 30th, 2014 5:35pm

check the below KB for all the Supported and un-supported scenarios.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2818415

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April 30th, 2014 6:19pm

It appears that this scenario is not supported , but is there a work around?I have many users with shortcuts to sites and i will be further hated by my end users if i am unable to find a work around. Any help would be appreciated.

April 30th, 2014 6:32pm

You need Symmetrical rewrite URL or Redirect scenarios from that article and they both are supported.
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May 2nd, 2014 12:50am

Looks like all that needed to be done was to add the other old server names to the current :80 SharePoint sites iis bindings and it rewrote the url correctly.
  • Marked as answer by Gr0leau 16 hours 30 minutes ago
May 2nd, 2014 2:43pm

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