IIS7 - URL Rewrite Module

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:33:06 GMT

That is unfortunately not possible, we have 5 sites on this server that need this subdomain url rewriting. So it should work on all of them or none.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

ruslany — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:19:10 GMT

Unfortunately, it is not possible to use *.domain.com for host binding.

Adding 6000 bindings is not practical, so the only solution I can think of is to change the binding on this site to empty host header, so that it gets all the requests. You will need to update the binding on the "Default Web Site" to not conflict with this site.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:38:43 GMT

Yes, it is a separate web site. There are 2 bindings:

www.domain.com
domain.com

So you are saying we have to add a binding for every of the 6.000 users we have at the moment?

user1.domain.com
user2.domain.com
...

Isn't there some other solution, something like *.domain.com?

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

ruslany — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:08:58 GMT

Is this a separate IIS web site, different from the "Default Web Site"? If yes, then what are the host header bindings on that site? You need to explicitly add bindings for every subdomain, otherwise the requests will be routed to the "Default Web Site".

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:38:39 GMT

I tried that but nothing gets written in the log. Other rules do, like this one for ex.

So I believe I have set the tracing Ok.

I simply get the error "Server not found...".

After that I returned the following line to the DNS zones configuration:
* A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Without it, there were problems, for ex. pop.domain.com didn't work anymore.

No I am getting the IIS welcome page again for the subdomain rule and nothing gets written in the logs. The Article rule works fine.

As if this request never gets to the point where the rule should be applied. Could there be something else in the IIS configuration that would block subdomain requests?

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

ruslany — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:54:19 GMT

The only thing I can suggest is to try using Failed Request Tracing to see if/how the rule is applied.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:40:25 GMT

If you check my first post in this topic, it was {R:1}. Anyway, I tried both but it still doesn't work.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

ruslany — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:05:59 GMT

In the previous rule example you used subdomain as a query string parameter, e.g.:

users.aspx?name={C:1}

Now, you have changed that to

users.aspx?name={R:1}

Is this an intended change?

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:37:38 GMT

I think I know why I allways got IIS welcome page, it was due to configuration of the DNS zone:

* A xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

I removed that line, now I don't get IIS welcome page any more, but it still doesn't work with the above rule.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 10:56:33 GMT

I'm back.
I am testing the whole thing on the production server now and I have some problems.

So the subdomain rule I am using is:

<rule name="subdomain">
                    <match url="([a-zA-Z]+)" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^[^.]+\.domain\.com" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="users.aspx?name={R:1}" />
                </rule>

But when I try with for ex. test.domain.com, I get the IIS7 default welcome page.

Any ideas?

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:03:32 GMT

That's it, the rule "subdomain" from my 1. post was the problem.

I simply moved the "SubDomainPictures" rule up and marked "Stop processing of subsequent rules".

Works now, thank you very much.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

ruslany — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:39:31 GMT

Do you have any other rules or is that the only rule you have? If you have another rule before the one for the /pictures, then it may be possible that preceeding rule rewrites the URL and it never reaches the /pictures rule.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:26:11 GMT

No, it doesn't result in 404, it just isn't there.

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

ruslany — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:22:39 GMT

The patttern that you have specified will not work because the <match> element evaluates the URL path only. The URL path will never contain domain.com hence the pattern will never match.

Take a look at this article that describes how the URL parts are accessed in a rewrite rule: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/465/url-rewrite-module-configuration-reference/#Accessing_URL_Parts_from_a_Rewrite_Rule

The rule that I gave before should work. When you say it does not work - does the request to http://user1.domain.com/pictures result in 404 or it gets rewritten but the pictures=1 is not there?

Re: URL rewrite on localhost

dbalasko — Tue, 12 May 2009 21:39:28 GMT

I have tried it, but it doesn' work. I have tried with some modifications:

I have changed the match condition because in your case ("^pictures"), the url should start with "pictures" but it doesn't, it comes at the end (http://user1.domain.com/pictures).
I also removed the "&" sign in the pattern since there is "/pictures" after ".com".

But it still doesn't work !?
When I test it in IIS url rewrite module, both url match and pattern pass.