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Profiterole 232 posts 264 karma points

Oct 23, 2011 @ 17:24
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Url rewriting
Hi,

I must use urlrewriting in Umbraco because I don't have acces to IIS.

So, I'm only try to redirect mysite.com/m or www.mysite.com/m to www.mysite.com/someurl.aspx

My regex skills are near 0, so here's my code that does not work :
```
<add name="redirect mobile" 
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redirect="Domain" 
```
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ignoreCase="true" 
```
```
rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite" 
```
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redirectMode="Permanent" 
```
```
virtualUrl="/m" 
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```
destinationUrl="/a-propos/mobile.aspx" />
```
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Jamie Howarth 306 posts 773 karma points c-trib

Oct 23, 2011 @ 17:44
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Hi Profiterole,

Try this:
```
<add name="redirectMobile" redirect="Domain"
     ignoreCase="true"
     rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
     redirectMode="Permanent"
     virtualUrl="^~/m$"
     destinationUrl="~/a-propos/mobile.aspx" />
```
Three main differences:
1. The "name" attribute should ideally not contain spaces;
2. The "virtualUrl" attribute should begin with a caret ^ (to anchor the regex to the start of the URL), followed by tilde ~ (to handle the virtual path of the request), and end with dollar $ (to mark the end of the string);
3. The "destinationUrl" attribute should begin with a tilde ~ to handle the virtual path of the URL to rewrite to.
Try this and let us know how you get on.

HTH,

Benjamin
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Profiterole 232 posts 264 karma points

Oct 23, 2011 @ 19:43

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Hi Benjamin,

Thank you for your help. After the changes, I got "mysite.com/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/a-propos/mobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspxobile.aspx"

And got en error. As you can see, it repeats the destination url...

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Profiterole 232 posts 264 karma points

Oct 25, 2011 @ 01:57

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Ok, still not answered. I'm not using extensionless site, so is it possible that the server does not know what to do with /m whitout extension?

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wolulcmit 357 posts 693 karma points

Oct 25, 2011 @ 02:44

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Hi Profiterole, try taking the redirect="domain" out of the equation and it should work.
you should be left with something like:

<add name="RedirectMobile"
         redirectMode="Permanent"
         ignoreCase="true"
         rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
         virtualUrl="^~/m$"
         destinationUrl="~/a-propos/mobile.aspx" />

I'm certainly no regex guru either, but the above should work.

- Tim

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Profiterole 232 posts 264 karma points

Oct 25, 2011 @ 14:15

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Hi Tim, I don't know why I should take off the redirect="domain", but it worked! Thank you!

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wolulcmit 357 posts 693 karma points

Oct 26, 2011 @ 02:43

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Again, from my limited knowledge of the subject (and a quick inspection of the documentation)
you only need redirect="domain" if you are redirecting to another domain, in which case you'd have to include the full path in the destinationUrl i.e destinationUrl="http://www.newdomain.com/a-propos/mobile.aspx" />
taking this out means its just doing a normal rewrite rather than a redirect.
you could also specify redirect="Application" which I suspect would work as well.

check out the documentation:
http://www.urlrewriting.net/160/en/documentation/documentation/documentation/documentation/documentation/documentation.html it seems to be reasonably comprehensive and is well worth knowing if you're going to be working with redirects a lot.

anyway, glad you got it working,

- Tim

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