Question

We are using IIS7 URL rewrite module with asp.net C#, all of the URLs are configured and written directly into web.config:

<system.webServer>
    <!-- ... -->
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <clear />
            <rule name="Category URL" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="somepage.aspx" ignoreCase="false"/>
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                    <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="REDIRECTION=true"
                         ignoreCase="false"/>
                    <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="categoryid=([^&amp;]*)"/>
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="http://{HTTP_HOST}/browsing/categorylanding.aspx?navcategoryid={C:1}"/>
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
 </system.webServer>

I need to move this to a section so that I can have seperate rules for QA, DEV and Production, what would be the “type that i would define in the section?

<configSections>
    <section name="IISURLRewriteSection" type="???"/>
</configSections>

Will the IIS automatically pick up these settings once moved outside from web.config to another custom config file?

Answer 1

We resorted to writing our own HTTPModule since from debugging point of view as well any issues that would arise at IIS level would have to have the Operations team involved – just following a process defined in our org 🙂