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Siddhu Moosewala
Siddhu Moosewala

Reputation: 13

Web.Config Url rewrite works but Redirect not working

I have the following web.config Where I have added the URL Rewrite and redirect rules. Which is partially working.

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <caching enabled="false" />
        
        <rewrite>
        
          <rules>
          
              
            <rule name="Rewrite to pages.asp">
              <match url="^pages/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />
              <action type="Rewrite" url="pages.asp?p={R:1}" />
            </rule>
            
            <rule name="Redirect from pages.asp">
                <match url="^pages/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />
                <action type="Redirect" url="pages/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
            </rule>
            
          </rules>
        </rewrite>
            
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

The URL structure is like this:

https://www.example.com/pages.asp?p=my-article

The rewrite should be like this (and it works):

https://www.example.com/pages/my-article/

if I manually visit this URL it works but the redirect part is not working as it should automatically. Something is wrong with this code.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6256

Answers (2)

Siddhu Moosewala
Siddhu Moosewala

Reputation: 13

The rules were all written wrong, by using the IIS rewrite rule manager, I have a working code now. This might help someone else with the same issue.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <caching enabled="false" />
        
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                
                <rule name="RedirectPages" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^pages\.asp$" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^POST$" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^p=([^=&amp;]+)$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="pages/{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="RewritePages" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^pages/([^/]+)/?$" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="pages.asp?p={R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
            <outboundRules>
                <rule name="OutboundPages" preCondition="ResponseIsHtml1">
                    <match filterByTags="A, Form, Img" pattern="^(.*/)pages\.asp\?p=([^=&amp;]+)$" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" value="{R:1}pages/{R:2}/" />
                </rule>
                
            </outboundRules>
          
          
        </rewrite>
            
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Upvotes: 1

samwu
samwu

Reputation: 5235

The execution order of url rewrite rule is from top to bottom, after executing the Rewrite rule, the rewritten URL does not match the parameters in your redirection rule, which is why the redirection does not work.

For more detailed error information, you can use failed request tracking to view.

Using Failed Request Tracing to Trace Rewrite Rules

Upvotes: 0

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