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lhan
lhan

Reputation: 4635

URL Rewrite Pattern to exclude application name from path

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.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2910

Answers (2)

Tomek
Tomek

Reputation: 3279

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}

Upvotes: 2

EvilBob22
EvilBob22

Reputation: 732

Unless there is something radically different with regexes in IIS, you would want to take out the anchor (^) at the beginning to match.

myApplication/MySpecialFolder$

The carat ^ tells it that that is the beginning of the string and the dollar sign $ tells it to match the end. A regex like abc finds "abc" anywhere in the string, ^abc matches strings that start with "abc", abc$ matches strings that end with "abc", and ^abc$ only matches when the whole string is "abc".

Upvotes: 1

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