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Short URL suggestions

My client wants a url like this:

http://mywebsite.com/NameofClient

I use ASP.NET WEBFORMS, so please no MVC answers.

If I do:

http://mywebsite.com/NameofClient

It expects that to be a folder name and errors.

If I do it with the ? it works:
http://mywebsite.com?NameofClient

But the client says ?'s are too confusing.

Any suggestions?

Can this be done with MapHttpRoute in the global.asax and then redirect to the page I want?

ste5an

Well, when this is the complete requirement, then a URL rewrite from http://mywebsite.com/NameofClient to http://mywebsite.com?NameofClient should do the job.

I use ASP.NET WEBFORMS, so please no MVC answers.

They can coexist and you can use both in parallel. So using MVC for the routing and web forms for the rest is possible (samples on EE andsample).

Starr Duskk

ASKER

ste5an,

I'll check into that.

the "samples on ee" link is broken.

Starr Duskk

ASKER

stefan,

I tried the below in my web.config

    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Launch URL Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="/bsar" />
          <action type="Redirect" url="/mysubdir/Launch.aspx" redirectType="Permanent" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>

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And it still pulls up the 404 built-in error, instead of a custom error page or redirecting.

how do I do the match url as a wild card type of thing? that if it contains /bsar

And also is my url correct? or does it need a tilde? will it do relative redirects?

I am running this from localhost right now.

Thanks!

hilltop

This is probably overkill, but you can write your own ISAPI.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/iis/6.0-sdk/ms524338(v%3Dvs.90)
Creating ISAPI Extensions

	if (urlString.Find("YourTrigger") != -1) //we want to redirect this file
    {
        urlString.Replace("YourTrigger","NameofClient");
        char *newUrlString= urlString.GetBuffer(urlString.GetLength());
        pHeaderInfo->SetHeader(pCtxt->m_pFC, "url", newUrlString);
        return SF_STATUS_REQ_HANDLED_NOTIFICATION;
   }

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