Question

I want to create a rule to redirect query to a page (which doesn’t exist) to another

Example:

http://www.example.com/en/page.asp?id=2&...

to

http://www.example.com/en-US/newpage.asp?id=2&...

I use this rule:

<rule name="Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="page\.asp\?(.+)$" />
    <action type="Rewrite" url="newpage.asp?{R:1}" />
</rule>

But this doesn’t work… I got a 404 error…

What is my mistake?

Thanks

Answer 1

1. URL Rewrite’s Rewrite action is only for rewriting the page URL that
   gets displayed on the browser but it expects the original page to
   exist on the server. For your case, you need a Redirect action.
2. The regex needs to be changed to reflect “en-US” in the final URL.

Try this code instead:

<rule name="Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="en/page\.asp\?(.+)$" />
    <action type="Redirect" url="en-US/newpage.asp?{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent"/>
</rule>

The permanent redirect helps makes your website SEO (Search Engine Optimized) preventing search engine bots to index the old URL (and hence not splitting page ranks between the 2 URLs).