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CoreyK
CoreyK

Reputation: 1

URL re-writing in ASP.NET C# using IIS

I do not understand very much about IIS but I am trying to do a redirect with URL rewriting. I am trying to do a redirect from http://www.cooltoys.com.au/besttoys to http://www.cooltoys.com.au/bestcooltoys

I have got the following code in my Web.config file and it doesn't work and i'm having difficulty understanding why.

<rules>
<rule name = "ToysRedirect" StopProcessing="true" />
<match url = "besttoys" />
<action type = "Redirect" url = "http://www.cooltoys.com.au/bestcooltoys" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent"/>
</rule>
</rules>

I think the problem is in the "match url" part (Pattern) so can someone please explain how to write this so it redirects correctly. Thanks, Corey

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (1)

Lesmian
Lesmian

Reputation: 3952

It will be something like:

<rules>
    <rule name = "ToysRedirect" StopProcessing="true" />
    <match url = "^(.*)/besttoys$" />
    <action type = "Redirect" url = "{R:1}/bestcooltoys" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent"/>
    </rule>

Basically you need to learn regular expressions. "^(.*)/besttoys$" - means that the we look for any url that will end with /besttoys and then we replace it with /bestcooltoys. The () chars define a group which we can then refer to by {R:1} - means first defined group.

Upvotes: 1

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