Question

I have the existing rule as xml that will rewrite or redirect any request to a specific url to its domain. It won’t let any outbound request go out of the domain.

I want to add an EXCEPTION to only one url (say abc.com). How to add an exception to a particular request?

(please donot provide anything like global.asax because IIS is not working with ASP.NET application but with some other application).

current rule:

<rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="topcontent">
           <match-url=".*">
                <action type="rewrite" url="mysite.com/{R:0}"/>
           </match-url>
       </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

If any inbound request comes it rewrites the url to mysite.com. I need to add an exception to say abc.com/…… How to do this?

Answer 1

you can use below code:

<rule name="special" enabled="true">
  <match url=".*" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" >
    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?abc\.com$" negate="true" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://mysite.com/{R:0}"/>
</rule>

a condition has been added to the rule, so if it does not come true, then the action will be executed (negate="true")

it will check the http://{HTTP_HOST}/url and if it does not match abc.com or http://www.abc.com which is exception here, then it will go for the action.

also I think that you may use Redirect here instead of Rewrite