Question

I’m trying to use the IIS 7 URL Rewrite feature for the first time, and I’m having trouble getting my regular expression working. It seems like it should be simple enough. All I need to do is rewrite a URL like this:

http://localhost/myApplication/MySpecialFolder

To:

http://localhost/MySpecialFolder

Is this possible? I want the regular expression to ignore everything before “myApplication” in the original URL, so that I could use “http://localhost” OR “http://mysite”, etc.

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

^myApplication/MySpecialFolder$

But using the “Test Pattern…” feature in IIS, it says my patterns don’t match unless I supply “myApplication/MySpecialFolder” exactly. Does anyone know how I can update my regular expression so that everything prior to “myApplication” is ignored and the following URLs will be seen as a match?

http://localhost/myApplication/MySpecialFolder
http://mysite/myApplication/MySpecialFolder

Many thanks in advance!

SOLUTION:

I needed to change my regex to:

myApplication/MySpecialFolder

Without the ^ at the beginning and without the $ at the end.

Answer 1

Your regular expression is correct, the pattern will be matched against path starting after the first slash after the domain.
So only bold part will be used for matching: http://localhost/myApplication/MySpecialFolder

To limit the rewriting to specific domain you have to use Conditions section with Condition input = {HTTP_HOST}