Question

i am currently using IIS7’s Url Re-write module, but the main loophole of using the IIS7’s url re-write module, is that i have to write rule for all the page,which i want to use on the website, i want to use a comman rule and redirect it to particular page (say homepage) and using global.asax i can redirect it to desired page…

Is it possible with url re-write or is there any tool available i can use for this purpose, or a code sample that could help me doing this.

i dont want extension in the url.

i have pages like index.aspx, news.aspx, artists.aspx, lessons.aspx… i want the urls like index, news, lessons, artists, i created a rule in web.config like

< rewrite>  
 < rules>  
   < rule name="urlType1">  
     < match url="^(\w*)" />  
     < action type="Rewrite" url="default.aspx" appendQueryString="false" />  
   < /rule>  
 < /rules>  
< /rewrite>  

this will land any page to default.aspx, and then using rawUrl in the global.asax, i am checking for the page like if user has entered “news” then i rewrite to news.aspx

Hope this has helped.

Answer 1

You can do just as you’re suggesting in your question–redirect all requests to a single URL:

And then in your Global.asax you could call Server.Transfer( “~/file1.aspx” ) to forward the request to a particular file.

Or, you could transfer directly from your URL Rewrite rule and skip further processing in your Global.asax file. For instance, this rule will read the incoming URL that has no file extention, and then forward the request on to a file that has a file extension:

        <rule name="Append a file extension to all requests discard querystring" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="^(.*)\?" />
            <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}.aspx" />
        </rule>

Read more about URL Rewriting rules on Ruslan Yakushev’s blog at http://ruslany.net/.