Question

I am running IIS7.5 and the URL Rewrite module.

I followed these step by step instructions to enable user friendly URL’s:

Rule Templates for the URL Rewrite Module – User Friendly URL – rule template

If I enter the URL http://domain.com/default/ instead of http://domain.com/default.aspx the website throws 404: file not found error.

Here are my rewrite rules:

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="RedirectUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^demourl\.dev\.asenetechdev1\.com/default\.aspx$" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^POST$" negate="true" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Redirect" url="demourl.dev.asenetechdev1.com/default" 
              appendQueryString="false" />
    </rule>
    <rule name="RewriteUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^demourl\.dev\.asenetechdev1\.com/default$" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="false" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="false" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="demourl.dev.asenetechdev1.com/default.aspx" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
  <outboundRules>
    <rule name="OutboundRewriteUserFriendlyURL1" preCondition="ResponseIsHtml1">
      <match filterByTags="A, Form, Img"
             pattern="^(.*)demourl\.dev\.asenetechdev1\.com/default\.aspx$" />
      <action type="Rewrite" value="{R:1}/ demourl.dev.asenetechdev1.com/default" />
    </rule>
    <preConditions>
      <preCondition name="ResponseIsHtml1">
        <add input="{RESPONSE_CONTENT_TYPE}" pattern="^text/html" />
      </preCondition>
    </preConditions>
  </outboundRules>
</rewrite>

I also tried using Intelligencia.UrlRewriter with this. But I am able to generate friendly urls on local as well as on server, but I want extensionless url, which is working ok on my local server, but not on the live server.

Answer 1

Your pattern is currently not matching /default/. It is only matching /default

Changing

<match url="^demourl\.dev\.asenetechdev1\.com/default$" />

to

<match url="^demourl\.dev\.asenetechdev1\.com/default/{0,1}$" />

should do it.