Question

I have a webpage that host documents on iis. When linking to those files for examples say I go to

www.webpage.com/Documents/testdocuments/innerfolder/1.pdf

I get the file back and have the complete url in the address bar. Is there a way to be able to browser to

www.webpage.com/Documents/testdocuments/innerfolder/1.pdf

, and get for example

www.webpage.com/Webdocs/1.pdf

as the url in the browser. My theory was make

www.webpage.com/Documents

a virtual directory, but I am not sure if I would still be able to access my files as

www.webpage.com/Documents/testdocuments/innerfolder/1.pdf

or if I would have to use for example

www.webpage.com/Webdocs/testdocuments/innerfolder/1.pdf

which defeats the purpose really. My ultimate goal is for the physical path of the file to not be visible to the user.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Answer 1

Since you are looking only to map one path to another you should use IIS url rewriting.

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="Map Docs" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^Webdocs/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="Documents/testdocuments/innerfolder/{R:1}" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

The other alternative is asp.net url routing. But it would be an overkill for what you need.