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How can I redirect certain URLs to other URLs that point to files hosted externally? I am using IIS on Win Server 2012

I was asked to redirect http request for a site on our internal web server to a different location (external server that is now hosting the files that were being served by our server). I initially used HTTP Redirect and that works if the person has logon credentials for the new location.

We need to use specific urls for guest access and so I though I could use URL Rewrite but not sure how to achieve this. Essentially I would like to redirect a URL in the format remote.ourorg:port/directory/file.pdf to ourorg.sharepoint.com/rest-of-guest-url.

David Johnson, CD

the first redirect goes to the other web server, so on the other webserver you would have to do a redirect back to your sharepoint server OR use absolute url's

phiriz

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Hi David,

Thanks for the reply. Not sure I completely understand. There is only one web server that we have control over (our web server) The place the files are being moved to is Office 365 sharepoint service which generates specific URLs for guess access. Would it be best to do away with HTTP Redirect and use the URL Rewrite with absolute URLs. One thing I did try to so was to try to match the whole current URL (not sure that this is right) and then redirect to the new URL. I am really new to Rewrites and redirects and so some guidance would help heaps.

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phiriz

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Thanks David. I managed to get it all done. Easier than I thought it would be once I knew what needed to be done.