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Re-direct in IIS

Hi,

I have a question if it's possible to re-direct (re-route) a web request in IIS. For example if a user enters www.mysite.com in the browser I would like it to end up in mysite.com.

Is this possible to do? I'm working in IIS on Windows Server 2012.

Thanks for help!

Peter

Kyle Abrahams, PMP

Yes,

This should work:

<rule name="Remove www" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
    <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.+)$" />
  </conditions>
  <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:0}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

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Peter Nordberg

ASKER

Hi and thanks for answer,

Where do I set this rule?

Peter

Kyle Abrahams, PMP

You can do this in the web.config in your application:

<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>

</rules>
</rewrite>

Peter Nordberg

ASKER

Hi,

I tried the rule but I got an internal server error. This is how I put it in my web.config:

 <system.webServer>
      <security>
        <requestFiltering>
          <requestLimits maxAllowedContentLength="2147483648"/>
        </requestFiltering>
      </security>
      <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="Remove www" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="(.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.(.+)$" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="http://{C:1}/{R:0}" appendQueryString="true" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
        </rules>
      
      </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>

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What can be wrong?

Peter

Kyle Abrahams, PMP

Do you have the re-write module installed on the server?

http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/using-the-url-rewrite-module

Peter Nordberg

ASKER

I installed it and applied the rule again. This time I got no error but the redirect doesn't seem to take place. If I enter www.kanal10.se it doesn't rewrite it.

Thanks for help!

Peter

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Peter Nordberg

ASKER

Thanks. Worked perfectly!

Peter