Question

We have a website; which, till now had only HTML pages. Now we are redeveloping it in ASP .Net.

This means that all the .html pages will be changed to .aspx extension. The problem is, there are a lot of external references to these pages, and we dont want to go and chage each and every link to aspx right away.

Is there any way to redirect a link to .html pages to .aspx pages? For example, is there any way that the server checks the file specified, finds out that it links to .html page and automatically opens the .aspx page?

Answer 1

if you do some sort of url rewriting you can have all the links stay the same and just serve up the aspx pages, request for index.html gets mapped to index.aspx

here’s what ms says about asp.net url rewriting:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx