IIS URL Rewrite and Web.config
asp.netIisUrl RewritingWeb Configasp.net Problem Overview
I don't understand anything about IIS, but am trying to solve this problem of redirecting all visitors to domain.com/page to domain.com/page.html
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rewriteMaps>
<rewriteMap name="StaticRedirects">
<add key="/page" value="/page.html" />
</rewriteMap>
</rewriteMaps>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
A couple of problems arise:
- I don't know where to even put the file. There is a User root directory, and an htdocs directory, I tried both, no joy.
- I don't even know if the account can do rewrites, I am trying to find that out.
asp.net Solutions
Solution 1 - asp.net
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Your existing web.config: you have declared rewrite map .. but have not created any rules that will use it. RewriteMap on its' own does absolutely nothing.
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Below is how you can do it (it does not utilise rewrite maps -- rules only, which is fine for small amount of rewrites/redirects):
This rule will do SINGLE EXACT rewrite (internal redirect) /page
to /page.html
. URL in browser will remain unchanged.
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="SpecificRewrite" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^page$" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="/page.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
This rule #2 will do the same as above, but will do 301 redirect (Permanent Redirect) where URL will change in browser.
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="SpecificRedirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^page$" />
<action type="Redirect" url="/page.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
Rule #3 will attempt to execute such rewrite for ANY URL if there are such file with .html extension (i.e. for /page
it will check if /page.html
exists, and if it does then rewrite occurs):
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="DynamicRewrite" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}\.html" matchType="IsFile" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="/{R:1}.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
Solution 2 - asp.net
Just wanted to point out one thing missing in LazyOne's answer (I would have just commented under the answer but don't have enough rep)
In rule #2 for permanent redirect there is thing missing:
redirectType="Permanent"
So rule #2 should look like this:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="SpecificRedirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^page$" />
<action type="Redirect" url="/page.html" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
Edit
For more information on how to use the URL Rewrite Module see this excellent documentation: URL Rewrite Module Configuration Reference
In response to @kneidels question from the comments; To match the url: topic.php?id=39
something like the following could be used:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="SpecificRedirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^topic.php$" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="(?:id)=(\d{2})" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="/newpage/{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
This will match topic.php?id=ab
where a
is any number between 0-9
and b is also any number between 0-9
.
It will then redirect to /newpage/xy
where xy
comes from the original url.
I have not tested this but it should work.
Solution 3 - asp.net
Just tried this rule, and it worked with GoDaddy hosting since they've already have the Microsoft URL Rewriting module installed for every IIS 7 account.
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="enquiry" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^enquiry$" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="/Enquiry.aspx" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>