Question

I am using urlrewriter.net

my intended url is like /articles/3/name_of_article/articles.aspx

& actual is articles.aspx?article =3;

(3 is just taken, it can be any number)

i am using regex like this

      <rewriter>
        <rewrite url="^/articles/(.+)/(.+)" to="/articles.aspx?article=$1" />
    </rewriter>

it does not work, also if i delete module dll from references then also no exception is
thrown.

1) how can ensure that module is loaded (via code)?

2) is my regex correct?

my web.config contains this:

<configSections>
        <section name="rewriter" requirePermission="false"
            type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.Configuration.RewriterConfigurationSectionHandler,
             Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" />
</configSections>

&

<httpModules>
        <add type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule,
                  Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" name="UrlRewriter" />

       <add name="ScriptModule"
             type="System.Web.Handlers.ScriptModule, System.Web.Extensions, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
    </httpModules>

Answer 1

2) is my regex correct?

No, you should probably change it to ^/articles/([^/]+)/.+$, otherwise the first capture will gobble up “3/name_of_article” and not just “3”, and you don’t need the second capture group. You can also write it with a non-greedy match in the capture group, e.g. ^/articles/(.+?)/.+$.