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Redirecting Non-www to Domain Equivalent

A question came up on a blog post of mine on how to redirect a domain name that doesn’t have www in it while retaining the original domain name.  Basically, to have a generic redirect to add on a www if it’s not already there. For example, how could Read More......( read more ) Read More...

URL Rewrite city.domain.com to domain.com/city

An IIS 7.x URL Rewrite question that comes up often is how to redirect something.domain.com to domain.com/city. Here’s an example URL Rewrite rule to accomplish that: < rule name ="CName to URL" stopProcessing ="true" > < Read More......( read more ) Read More...

ARR Binding Trick-Week 36

You can find this week’s video here . This week's video shows a specific trick to allow a reverse proxy—Application Request Routing in this case—how to use only one IP address per web servers while supporting many distinct sites. This is extra useful Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Bindings and Rules for ARR-Week 32

You can find this week’s video here . This week we take a look at how to leverage URL Rewrite for Application Request Routing (ARR) to create different rules for different virtual IP's (VIP's). This is week 32 of a 52 week series for the web pro. Picking Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Using IP Restrictions with URL Rewrite-Week 25

URL Rewrite offers tremendous flexibility for customizing rules to your environment. One area of functionality that is often desired for URL Rewrite is to allow a large list of approved or denied IP addresses and subnet ranges. IIS’s original IP Restrictions Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Troubleshoot ASP.NET Errors Remotely–while Appearing Local

For years I’ve wanted to be able to troubleshoot website remotely by seeing the detailed error report, while ensuring that other users on the web only see the friendly non-detailed error. This is now possible with URL Rewrite 2.0. Through a simple rule Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Visual Studio IntelliSense for URL Rewrite

Visual Studio doesn’t have IntelliSense support for URL Rewrite by default.  This isn’t a show stopper since it doesn’t result in stop errors. However, it’s nice to have full IntelliSense support and to get rid of the warnings for URL Rewrite rules Read More......( read more ) Read More...

URL Rewrite – Multiple domains under one site. Part II

I believe I have it … I’ve been meaning to put together the ultimate outgoing rule for hosting multiple domains under one site.  I finally sat down this week and setup a few test cases, and created one rule to rule them all.  In Part I of this Read More......( read more ) Read More...

URL Parts available to URL Rewrite Rules

URL Rewrite is a powerful URL rewriting tool available for IIS7 and newer.  Your rewriting options are almost unlimited, giving you the ability to optimize URLs for search engine optimization (SEO), support multiple domain names on a single site Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Setting up a Reverse Proxy using IIS, URL Rewrite and ARR

Today there was a question in the IIS.net Forums asking how to expose two different Internet sites from another site making them look like if they were subdirectories in the main site. So for example the goal was to have a site: www.site.com expose a www.site.com/company1 and a www.site.com/company2 and have the content from “www.company1.com” served for the first one and “www.company2.com” served in the second one. Furthermore we would like to have the responses cached in the server for performance...( read more ) Read More...