Question

Say, I want to have a page whose URL is “/about”, not “/about.aspx”. How would I go about doing this, using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010? I read some stuff about RewriteRules in ISS but I wasn’t sure how to configure it.

Answer 1

If you only have a few pages, you can use a url map rewrite rule in Web.config:

<system.webServer>
  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="url map rewrite rule" enabled="true">
        <match url=".*" />
        <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
          <add input="{urlmap:{REQUEST_URI}}" pattern="(.+)" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="{C:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
    <rewriteMaps>
      <rewriteMap name="urlmap">
        <add key="/" value="default.aspx" />
        <add key="/about" value="about.aspx" />
        <add key="/contactus" value="contact.aspx" />
        etc.
        etc.

      </rewriteMap>
    </rewriteMaps>
  </rewrite>
</system.webServer>