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  Inology

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  Rule to redirect to domain alias

  Jan 05, 2012 07:03 AM|LINK

  Hi,

  I have a domain say www.mydomain.com and want to 301 redirect anything at that domain to my domain alias which is say www.mydomainalias.com.  So the following will be true:

  • <div mce_keep="true"> <div mce_keep="true">www.mydomain.com/ -> www.mydomainalias.com/</div></div>
  • <div mce_keep="true">www.mydomain.com/index.htm -> www.mydomainalias.com/index.htm</div>
  • <div mce_keep="true">www.mydomain.com/contact.htm -> www.mydomainalias.com/contact.htm</div>
  • <div mce_keep="true">www.mydomain.com/blog/index.htm -> www.mydomainalias.com/blog/index.htm</div>

  I have attempted to write an URL Rewrite Rule for it with no success as follows:

  <rewrite>
     <rules>
        <rule name="Domain Redirect" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
           <match url="^(www.)?mydomain\.com\.au/" />
           <action type="Redirect" url="www.mydomainalias.com.au/" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
     </rules>
  </rewrite>

  I am sure it is not that hard.  Your help would be appreciated.

  Thanks, John

  URL Rewrite url redirect 301 permanent redirect url rewrite inbound rule domain alias

  • Edited by Inology on Jan 05, 2012 07:04 AM
  • Edited by Inology on Jan 05, 2012 07:05 AM
  • Edited by Inology on Jan 05, 2012 07:06 AM
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  jeff@zina.co...

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  Re: Rule to redirect to domain alias

  Jan 05, 2012 01:30 PM|LINK

   How about:

  <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="Domain Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="^mydomain.com.au/([0-9]+)/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />
        <action type="Redirect" url="mydomain.com/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>

  From scratch, untested.  If it doesn't work with a little tweaking, try a rewrite map as per:

  http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/469/using-rewrite-maps-in-url-rewrite-module/
  

  Jeff
  

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  Inology

  3 Posts

  Re: Rule to redirect to domain alias

  Jan 05, 2012 10:46 PM|LINK

  Thanks Jeff, you set me on the right path, however it still does not seem to redirect and I am sure I have the correct rule and regular expression.  I used the test pattern in "Edit Inbound Rule" and it worked on all scenarios.  This is what I ended up with:

  <rewrite>
     <rules>
        <rule name="Domain Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
           <match url="^(www.)?mydomain.com.au/([/_0-9a-z-.]+)?" />
           <action type="Redirect" url="www.mydomainalias.com.au/{R:2}" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
     </rules>
  </rewrite>

  At the moment I only have 2 files in my root (web.config and index.html).  It should look at the web.config before any other file shouldn't it.  I shouldn't need any other files in there should I?

  John

  Edit Inbound Rule

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  Lloydz

  2335 Posts

  Microsoft

  Re: Rule to redirect to domain alias

  Jan 09, 2012 02:06 AM|LINK

  Hi,

  Actually, the domain name information is not included inside the input url. You need to capture the domain name with "HTTP_HOST" server varuable in condition:

  <rule name="Domain Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="(.*)" />
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}mydomainalias.com.au/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
    <conditions>
      <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?mydomain\.com\.au" />
    </conditions>
  </rule>

  Let me know if you are still facing any issues on this task.

  Thanks.

   

  • Edited by Inology on Jan 09, 2012 09:27 PM
  • Edited by Inology on Jan 09, 2012 09:31 PM
  • Marked as answer by Inology on Jan 09, 2012 09:33 PM
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  Inology

  3 Posts

  Re: Rule to redirect to domain alias

  Jan 09, 2012 09:32 PM|LINK

  Thank you Lloydz, that did the trick... I really appreciate your help...  Have a great day :)

  John