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03-04-2009, 11:15 AM

sfraser
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Sub Domain Rewrite

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Been trying to create a rule to allow sub domains to be added to domains, in which it would link to a folder inside the www folder

I have this rule and it just returns bad request, but if its changed to redirect it works fine, just the address is incorrect.

instead of sub.mine.co.uk

it would be mine.co.uk/sub

I understand that is how redirect works, so why does the rewrite return bad request?

03-04-2009, 1:03 PM In reply to

ruslany
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When you use full URL with the Rewrite action (i.e. url that starts with http://), that triggers URL rewriter to proxy the request to that URL instead of rewriting. Proxy functionality is done by using Application Request Routing module. You most probably do not have that module installed, that's why you get bad request errors.

If you just want to rewrite then you should use just URL path, e.g:

http://ruslany.net

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03-04-2009, 1:22 PM In reply to

sfraser
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thanks that works a treat.

03-12-2009, 6:26 PM In reply to

roundedcube
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How about the reverse of this? How can I point:

www.domain.com/subdomainname

subdomain.domain.com

and making sure that any subsequent pages after the /subdomainname also maps correctly such as:

www.domain.com/subdomainname/page1.aspx

would map to

subdomain.domain.com/page1.aspx

Any help would be appreciated.

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03-13-2009, 2:38 PM In reply to

ruslany
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When you say "point to", do you mean rewriting or redirection. I.e. when user in the browser clicks on the link to www.domain.com/subdomain and gets a response, what URL should be in the browser's address bar?

http://ruslany.net

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03-16-2009, 12:26 PM In reply to

roundedcube
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I meant "rewrite". The URL should remain www.domain.com/subdomain in the browser.

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03-17-2009, 1:24 PM In reply to

ruslany
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In this case there are two possible situations:

If the subdomain.domain.com is bound to the same web site as www.domain.com then you can just have a rewrite rule that strips off the "/subdomain" part from the URL path.
If the subdomain.domain.com is a separate web site, then you will have to use Application Request Routing module as a reverse proxy to that web site.

http://ruslany.net

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03-23-2009, 3:00 PM In reply to

roundedcube
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It's the same IIS site. However, subdomain.domain.com shows differently than www.domain.com. And the web app uses the "subdomain" to determine what to show. So, if I just strip it off, the app will see "www" and will show the "www" view. I hope that makes sense. Maybe you're #1 option is what I need but what would I put in my web.config?

03-25-2009, 8:12 PM In reply to

ruslany
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What does web application use to determine the subdomain? Does it look at the HTTP_HOST server variable? If yes, then option #1 will not work, because the HTTP_HOST header will be still set to www.site.com after rewriting.

http://ruslany.net

07-05-2009, 2:46 AM In reply to

sadegh-shad
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it's not work on local

how do i?

07-08-2009, 12:15 AM In reply to

ruslany
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Could you provide more details on what does not work and what you are trying to do? If you post your rewrite rule here that will also help.

http://ruslany.net

07-10-2009, 4:17 PM In reply to

sadegh-shad
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thanks ruslan

it's resolved.

now how do i when user typed domain.com/news/default.aspx redirect it to news.domain.com/default.aspx ???

thanks

07-13-2009, 5:03 AM In reply to

sadegh-shad
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for redirect i'm used this rule

this rule is correct? if correct changes this need to work correct for this?

domain.net/f1/f2/f3/../fn

thanks

07-14-2009, 7:30 PM In reply to

ruslany
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Try this maybe:

http://ruslany.net

07-15-2009, 1:50 PM In reply to

sadegh-shad
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Oh, like that does the final problems.

Now I have one other problem. When I use this rule, another rule that used for rewriting page news don't work and gives page not found message. Now I do?

news rewrite rule

subdomain rule

Really thank you.

07-16-2009, 5:01 PM In reply to

ruslany
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What's the relative order of the rules?

http://ruslany.net

07-17-2009, 2:34 AM In reply to

sadegh-shad
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Location 1 with 2 have modified and the problem was resolved. But my problem still is not resolved in this post. Please answer it too.

Thanks many ruslan

05-31-2010, 4:17 AM In reply to

elphill
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Hello, Let me know how to do it I have domain say www.mydomain.com and a subfolder mydomain I have pointed www.mydomain.com> mydomain but now the url in godaddy windows hosting shows like this www.mydomain.com/mydomain/default.aspx www.mydomain.com/mydomain/default1.aspx Let me know how to write and the steps My mail id is neel2nil@gmail.com

05-31-2010, 9:55 AM In reply to

OWScott
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This article walks through how to remove the sub-folder from the URL: http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2010/05/26/url-rewrite-multiple-domains-under-one-site-part-ii.aspx

Scott Forsyth
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10-08-2011, 4:24 AM In reply to

om2008
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Thank you so much.

11-21-2011, 12:24 PM In reply to

Peter Smith
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@ruslany: Seems like you've figured out what I've been looking for like crazy. I copied your example and altered it a bit: What I want is that: http://johndoe.mydomain.nl and johndoe.mydomain.nl redirect to: http://www.mydomain.nl/mypage.aspx?title=johndoe But I get: Not Found HTTP Error 404. The requested resource is not found. btw: I placed the above code as my first rewrite rule in the section Do I need to configure anything extra in IIS?

11-22-2011, 7:58 AM In reply to

HCamper
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Hi @ Peter,

Have you looked at Scott Forsyth's Blog post

http://weblogs.asp.net/owscott/archive/2010/05/26/url-rewrite-multiple-domains-under-one-site-part-ii.aspx ?

AFAIK can post url Rewrite questions at his Blog.

AFAIK will follow up with help and suggestions in the IIS Rewrite Forum.

Just a suggestion,

Martin

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11-22-2011, 1:07 PM In reply to

OWScott
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Thanks Martin for the mention.

Hi Peter, I replied to your other post over here: http://forums.iis.net/p/1183351/2003573.aspx#2003573 but it looks like it's waiting for moderation before it's submitted so it should show up later.

Here's an example which I believe will work for your situation:

Note that you need to make sure that http://www.mydomain.com/mypage?username=johndoe will work if you visit that page manually, otherwise you'll get a 404 because the target location doesn't exist.

Scott Forsyth
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11-23-2011, 3:14 PM In reply to

Peter Smith
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Hi, Yeah, I had the same thing with the moderation. Anyway, thanks for replying so fast. I still get the 404 error though. I added johndoe.mydomain.com to my windows hosts file (since wildcard subdomains arent supported). The full url www.mydomain.com/mypage.aspx?title=johndoe DOES work. Also when I ping my site: johndoe.mydomain.com I get a response from my local server. Now Im thinking the subdomain request is not passed to the correct website (mydomain.com) or am I missing something? Here's what I added:

11-23-2011, 3:29 PM In reply to

OWScott
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Hi Peter,

Your conclusion sounds right. Did you add johndoe.mydomain.com as a host header in the site bindings for the same site as you added the URL Rewrite rule? Since it's a redirect it really isn't critical which site that you added it to as long as the rule and header are on the same site.

Scott Forsyth
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11-24-2011, 4:58 AM In reply to

Peter Smith
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Hi Scott, That did fix the problem :) Since the title value should be dynamic, Im assuming that if on my production server I have wildcard DNS enabled, I dont need to add all the subdomains separately? Thanks again also @Martin for pointing me in the right direction

11-24-2011, 10:31 AM In reply to

OWScott
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Hi Peter, what you can do is ensure that you have a dedicated IP for the site and then you can leave the host header blank. That's the IIS equivalent to a wildcard.

Scott Forsyth
Microsoft MVP - IIS
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ORCS Web, Inc
www.orcsweb.com

11-24-2011, 12:55 PM In reply to

Peter Smith
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Hi Scott, I have a Virtual Private Server with multiple of my sites on it (around 20)...I guess your suggestion would not work in my situation or...? Thanks!

11-24-2011, 10:01 PM In reply to

OWScott
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If all of the other sites have a specific domain then you're ok. Set your wildcard site with a blank host header and all of the other sites with a specific domain name. Or, get your host to provide another IP for your wildcard site. Either option will work well.

Scott Forsyth
Microsoft MVP - IIS
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ORCS Web, Inc
www.orcsweb.com

11-25-2011, 1:59 PM In reply to

Peter Smith
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Ok, great! Will give that a shot when it goes live :) Thanks again for your help!

12-19-2011, 5:33 AM In reply to

QasimRaza
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Hi ALL,

I have a domain say www.mydomain.com (website is in ASP.net 4.0 , IIS 7 is there and a static IP address is assigned to the website)

I have already made url redirect in a way that if some one enters

www.mydomain.com/SOME-WORD/WORD-12356 then

it behind the seen redirects user to

www.mydomain.com/page.aspx?RecordID=12356

I have done this by making redirect rules in global.asax by using

System.Web.Routing name space and routes.MapPageRoute function.

but now i want to have SOME-SUBDomain.mydomain.com redirects to www.mydomain.com

Could any one advise how i can do this.

Thanks

Regards,

01-29-2012, 2:06 PM In reply to

idontknow12
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Sorry to ask for it in this threat but i tried out some of the examples here and its seams not to work if i use it with Joomla 2.5 instead of a sub-folder.

For Example Joomla 2.5 with different languages and URL Rewrite shows www.domain.eu/de/what-to-do now i would like for "de" german to have shown as a sub-domain in the URL e.g. de.domain.eu/what-to-do-now ect., also for French and English but i think this is not the issue here. Do you may have some suggestion or help what i do wrong? Tanks in advance for your help.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
   <system.webServer>
       <rewrite>
           <rules>
               <rule name="Joomla! Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                   <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                   <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                       <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="base64_encode[^(]*$[^)]*$" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="(>|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(<|%3E)" />
                       <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="_REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})" ignoreCase="false" />
                   </conditions>
                   <action type="CustomResponse" url="index.php" statusCode="403" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Forbidden" />
               </rule>
               <rule name="Joomla! Rule 2">
                   <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="false" />
                   <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                     <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/index.php" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
                     <add input="{URL}" pattern="/component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$" />
                     <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                     <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                   </conditions>
                   <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
               </rule>
               <rule name="Rewrite subdomain" stopProcessing="false">
                   <match url="(.*)" />
                   <conditions>
                    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(?!www)(\w+)\.domain\.net$" />
                   </conditions>
                   <action type="Rewrite" url="{C:1}/{R:1}" />
               </rule>
           </rules>
       </rewrite>
   </system.webServer>
</configuration>

01-30-2012, 10:47 AM In reply to

OWScott
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Hi idontknow12,

Something like this should work.

Add the de.domain.eu binding to the same site, then it will confirm that the domain is de.domain.eu and that the URL doesn't already start with /de/. If that happens then it will serve up the site from /de/ instead of the root.

It's possible to merge your three language rules into one but probably easier to just create three rules for each and replace 'de' with 'fr' or 'en'.

Scott Forsyth
Microsoft MVP - IIS
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ORCS Web, Inc
www.orcsweb.com

02-23-2012, 7:07 AM In reply to

Darrenst
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Sorry Guys.

Spent an hour on the same rule and it still is not working as expected.

I have two domain names.

www.domain.co.uk

blog.domain.co.uk

In order for google not to hammer me with Duplicate Content. I need to Rewrite anything that comes from:

blog.domain.co.uk

to:

www.domain.co.uk/blog

This also need to apply to urls with subordinates like:

blog.domain.co.uk/2012/embedding-multiple-youtube-videos-in-your-website.aspx

to:

www.domain.co.uk/blog/2012/embedding-multiple-youtube-videos-in-your-website.aspx

Can this be done because everything I try redirects to the homepage not the blog .

Thank you,

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