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@ccbbc_cs - Can you please post the URL rewrite rules that you've tried?<br />
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Also, are these requests going straight to the IIS App server, or are they hitting an IIS reverse proxy first?
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Here are the results of the two I currently have. &nbsp;Until the static IP is installed, I have to live with a temporary dynamic DNS style account (hence the two rules).<br />
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<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41390730-1"><span>&lt;rewrite&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;rules&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;rule name=&quot;WS Static IP&quot; patternSyntax=&quot;ECMAScript&quot;&gt;</span>
<span>                    &lt;match url=&quot;^(app.mydomain.com)$&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>                    &lt;action type=&quot;Rewrite&quot; url=&quot;{HTTP_HOST}/application&quot; logRewrittenUrl=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;/rule&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;rule name=&quot;WS Dynamic IP&quot; patternSyntax=&quot;ECMAScript&quot;&gt;</span>
<span>                    &lt;match url=&quot;^(dyniphost.host.com)$&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>                    &lt;action type=&quot;Rewrite&quot; url=&quot;{HTTP_HOST}/WS2015&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;/rule&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;/rules&gt;</span>
<span>        &lt;/rewrite&gt;</span>
</code></pre>
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@ccbbc_cs - Thanks. <br />
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Just confirming... Do you need the URLs to be rewritten to different &nbsp;directories?<br />

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{HTTP_HOST}/application
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{HTTP_HOST}/WS2015
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This is what the URL Rewrite snippet is indicating. However, your initial question asks to rewrite all requests going to: <a href="http://myapp.server.com" rel="ugc">http://myapp.server.com</a>&nbsp;to a sub directory - <a href="http://myapp.server.com/appsubdirectory" rel="ugc">http://myapp.server.com/appsubdirectory</a>.<br />
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I want to make sure that we construct the correct incoming pattern match URL and the appropriate rewrite output to solve your problem.
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No, I just didn't clean-up one of the directory mentions.
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Assume they are both /application
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Thank you Lajuan. &nbsp;My problem is that other sites will need to be available as well, so catching ALL incoming URLs and redirecting them won't work for me. &nbsp;I need to be able to redirect for the two specific domains &nbsp;&quot;app.mydomain.com&quot; and &quot;dyniphost.host.com&quot;<br />
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Other host headers will be hosted that I won't want to redirect.
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@ccbbc_cs - Okay. <br />
So do you have three sites defined in IIS? <br />
Site 1 - Default Site (myapp.server.com)<br />
Site 2 - app.mydomain.com<br />
Site 3 - dyniphost.host.com<br />
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I'm trying to determine what your users primary entry point will be. For example:<br />
myapp.server.com - display all general content<br />
myapp.server.com/applicati<wbr />on1 - redirect to: app.mydomain.com<br />
myapp.server.com/applicati<wbr />on2 - redirect to: dyniphost.host.com
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I have one site defined with multiple host header bindings. &nbsp;The site is hosted on a Windows server 2012 server.<br />
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Working with the URLS values in the rule, here is the explanation that I hope makes sense:<br />
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app.mydomain.com is for those who access the site from the inside for now. &nbsp;The static IP and corresponding DNS A record are not established yet. &nbsp;So, this URL only works on the inside where our internal DNS server catches it.<br />
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dyniphost.host.com is for those who are not in the building on the network. &nbsp;It is a generic host name with a company that provides dynamic IPS services (because our static is not in place yet). &nbsp;However, the need to access is immediate, so I need to trap this one too.<br />
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If the user types app.mydomain.com I want IIS to append /application to the end of that URL.<br />
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If the user types sunup host.host.com I want IIS to append /application to the end of that URL.<br />
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Both URLs lead to the same IIS site.
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I hate autocorrect.<br />
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sunup... Was supposed to by dyniphost.host.com
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@ccbbc_cs - Okay, I think the following should work for you. Please note, that I also added two entries to my Windows host file for the two domain names to simulate your DNS entries. This also allowed me to test if the URL rewrite rules would work. <br />
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This is one site with multiple host header bindings...<br />
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Please see the attached screen shots and updated web.config rules below. The web.config should be in the default site &quot;wwwroot&quot;.<br />
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<pre><code class="code-10 nolinks" id="code-20-41391081-1"><span>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;</span>
<span>&lt;configuration&gt;</span>
<span>    &lt;system.webServer&gt;</span>
<span>        &lt;rewrite&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;rules&gt;  				</span>
<span>			&lt;rule name=&quot;app.mydomain.com&quot; stopProcessing=&quot;true&quot;&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;match url=&quot;.*&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;conditions&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;add input=&quot;{HTTP_HOST}&quot; pattern=&quot;^(.*)app.mydomain.com&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;add input=&quot;{PATH_INFO}&quot; pattern=&quot;^/application/&quot; negate=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;/conditions&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;action type=&quot;Rewrite&quot; url=&quot;{R:0}/application&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>        &lt;/rule&gt;</span>
<span>		&lt;rule name=&quot;dyniphost.host.com&quot; stopProcessing=&quot;true&quot;&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;match url=&quot;.*&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;conditions&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;add input=&quot;{HTTP_HOST}&quot; pattern=&quot;^(.*)dyniphost.host.com&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>                &lt;add input=&quot;{PATH_INFO}&quot; pattern=&quot;^/application/&quot; negate=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;/conditions&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;action type=&quot;Rewrite&quot; url=&quot;{R:0}/application&quot; /&gt;</span>
<span>        &lt;/rule&gt;</span>
<span>            &lt;/rules&gt;</span>
<span>        &lt;/rewrite&gt;</span>
<span>    &lt;/system.webServer&gt;</span>
<span>&lt;/configuration&gt;</span>
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Sorry it took so long to come back to this. &nbsp;Lot's of circumstances in the way.
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@ccbbc_cs - No problem. Glad to hear you got it resolved.
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When it comes to the URL rewrite rules, I'm a bit of a basket case. &nbsp;I need to do the following:<br />
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I have employees going to <a href="http://myapp.server.com" rel="ugc">http://myapp.server.com</a><br />
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I need them to wind-up at <a href="http://myapp.server.com/appsubdirectory" rel="ugc">http://myapp.server.com/appsubdirectory</a><br />
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I have tried several things, but I can't seem to get the pattern matching correct. &nbsp;Help.
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When it comes to the URL rewrite rules, I'm a bit of a basket case.  I need to do the following:

I have employees going to http://myapp.server.com

I need them to wind-up at http://myapp.server.com/appsubdirectory

I have tried several things, but I can't seem to get the pattern matching correct.  Help.

Struggling with IIS URL Rewrite 2.0

Windows Server 2012 is the server version of Windows 8 and the successor to Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2012 is the first version of Windows Server to have no support for Itanium-based computers since Windows NT 4.0. Windows Server 2012, now in its second release (Windows Server 2012 Release 2) includes Foundation, Essentials, Standard and Datacenter, and does not support IA-32 or IA-64 processors.

Windows Server 2012

IIS is Internet Information Services, the web server included with Windows Server operating systems. All current versions are built on a modular architecture; modules can be added or removed individually so that those required for specific functionality are installed. The full installation of IIS includes HTTP, security, content, compression, caching, logging and diagnostics.