Question

I have a default.aspx page like this with the goal of redirecting differently based on the host header.

<%
if(System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host == "xxx.xxx.com")
{
response.redirect ("place/subplace/xxx.aspx")
}
else
{
response.redirect ("place/xxx.aspx")
}
%>

but it is giving me the error “Compiler Error Message: BC30201: Expression expected.”

What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

In C# expressions are terminated with a semicolon ;

if (System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host == "xxx.xxx.com")
{
    Response.Redirect("place/subplace/xxx.aspx"); <-- here
} 
else
{
    Response.Redirect("place/xxx.aspx"); <-- and here
}

and C# is case-sensitive. Both Response and Redirect start with a capital letter.

Edit: Since you now tagged this as VB.Net

Your code is no valid VB.net code. If it were it should read like the following:

If System.Web.HttpContext.Current.Request.Url.Host = "xxx.xxx.com" Then
    Response.Redirect("place/subplace/xxx.aspx")
Else
    Response.Redirect("place/xxx.aspx")
End If