Try this:

<rule name="admin" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^umbraco" />
  <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.google.com" />
</rule>

You don't really need the http://localhost/ part unless you only want to match on localhost. Using ^ matches the start of the path.

Add the http(s) protocol to your redirect if it's an external URL.

Thanks Dan, how can I redirect to the umbraco admin page. both rules redirect to the home page lol. thanks for your help.

<rewrite
  <rules>
    <rule name="Admin Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^umbraco" />
      <action type="Redirect" url="http://localhost/mysite/" />
    </rule>
    <rule name="NewAdmin" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^admin" />
      <action type="Redirect" url="http://localhost/mysite/umbraco" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite

I have this problem as well. Trying to restrict access to the backoffice using the default

http://your-host/umbraco/

I tried the redirect trick like this but it will loop back to the home page or whatever page you redirected the match url=^umbraco.

Rewriting also does not work mainly because I don't know the actual file that the server should serve

<rewrite
  <rules>
    <rule name="Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^umbraco" />
      <action type="Redirect" url="http://localhost/" />
    </rule>
    <rule name="Rewrite" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^admin" />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="http://localhost/umbraco" appendQueryString="false" />
    </rule>
  </rules>

</rewrite>

The rewrite would fail with a 404 not found error As stated earlier, two redirect rules will cause a loop. I've been at this the whole day now. Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

I believe creating a subdomain specifically for logging in to the backoffice is our only practical solution for now. Changing paths and some other voodoo is a no-go for me because I want site upgrades to be easy. I posted the subdomain solution I did on another thread

Just in case anyone stumbles into this :)

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