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Topic: simple rewrite url in web.config

Posted By: fabrixnet
Subject: simple rewrite url in web.config
Date Posted: 22 March 2019 at 6:46pm

Hello,
I would like to rewrite url from http://www.website.com/index.asp?lang=en" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/index.asp?lang=en to http://www.www.website.com/en" rel="nofollow - www.www.website.com/en
In web.config I have inserted the code but it doesn't work, what's the right way?

        <rewrite>
            <rules>

              
              <rule name="index 1">
                <match url="^index\.asp(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                  <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^(.*)lang=(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="{C:2}/" appendQueryString="false" />
              </rule>

              <rule name="index 2" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url="^/(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
                <action type="Rewrite" url="index.asp?lang={R:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
              </rule>

            </rules>
        </rewrite>

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 25 March 2019 at 4:43pm

Is the first rule redirecting to http://www.website.com/en" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/en ?

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Posted By: fabrixnet
Date Posted: 25 March 2019 at 5:21pm

Yes, http://www.website.com/index.asp?lang=en" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/index.asp?lang=en redirecting to http://www.website.com/en" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/en

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 26 March 2019 at 8:23am

The first rule that does the redirect is working then and it is the second rule "index 2" that detects the new URL and tells the web server which file to use to process that you need to look at.

I suspect that the following part of "index 2" is not spotting your redirected URL;

The web server may or may not receive the request as http://www.website.com/en/" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/en/

You could try something like below, but I am sure that is a better way to do this;

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Posted By: fabrixnet
Date Posted: 27 March 2019 at 11:04am

Your suggestion works by inserting the web.config on internal folders, example:
http://www.website.com/news/en/" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/news/en/
This is already a good step for me

Thank you very much!

Unfortunately it don't work with http://www.website.com/en/" rel="nofollow - www.website.com/en/
bye