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James Law
James Law

Reputation: 6693

Microsoft IIS Url Rewrite 2.0 - rewrite url with x number of folders

I'm trying to set up a url rewrite rule using Microsoft IIS URL Rewrite 2.0, I'm running IIS7 and .NET 4.

I want to match any number of a specific pattern, for example:

www.test.com/test1/
www.test.com/test1/test2/
www.test.com/test1/test2/test3/
www.test.com/test1/test2/test3/test4/ etc...

and [respectively] rewrite the results as 

www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1
www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1&q=test2
www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1&q=test2&q=test3
www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1&q=test2&q=test3&q=test4 etc...

or

www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1
www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1,test2
www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1,test2,test3
www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1,test2,test3,test4

This is a fairly straight forward thing to do when using the standard c# regex engine (I have considered creating a custom HttpModule to handle this and iterating over a Match collection), however I wanted to know if it was possible to do with the IIS url rewrite component as I'm using this quite happily for other parts of the site.

Any ideas?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 183

Answers (2)

Tim Cadieux
Tim Cadieux

Reputation: 455

If you're using .net 4.0, what not use Routing?

http://everymanprogrammer.com/index.php/asp-net-4-0-routing-a-simple-tutorial-that-works/

Upvotes: 0

Daniel A. White
Daniel A. White

Reputation: 190942

Why don't you just match and pass in 

www.test.com/page.aspx?q=test1/test2/test3/test4

Then it would be up to page.aspx to parse it how it needs it? That way your configuration won't have to change when it really is application logic.

Upvotes: 1

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