I think what is happening is that they've mapped .htm file to the asp.net request pipeline, but because Umbraco doesn't pick up the .htm extension, its just returning a blank page. I can't say for 100% without looking at your site in IIS. Do you have your site set up to use extensionless URLs, or are you using .aspx page extensions? Let me know and I'll post a Rewrite rule that you can put in your urlrewriting.config file that might fix this.

Hi Tim,

Thanks for your help. I am not running extionless urls I have tried some really explicit examples of URL redirects. directing an explicit url to a url on my site but it didnt work. I would really appreciate any examples you could give.

thanks

L

Hiya,

Can you post an example of one of the 301 rules that you have that isn't working please?

Hey sure

<add name="thingstodo"
               redirect="Domain"
               ignoreCase="true" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
               virtualUrl="http://www.mydomain.com/attractions/a-page.htm"
               redirectMode="Permanent"
               destinationUrl="http://www.mydomain.com/things-to-do.aspx" />

This doesnt seem to do anything except that sometimes it will cause my xml to unpublish so i get that "no content seems to be published" umbraco screen.

L

That's a bit odd! Try the following:

<add name="thingstodo23"
               redirect="Domain"
               ignoreCase="true"rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
               virtualUrl="~/attractions/a-page.htm"
               redirectMode="Permanent"
               destinationUrl="~/things-to-do.aspx"/>

you could also try just setting up a rule for a .aspx page to see if that works. Also check for things like rules with identical names, as they won't fire.

Yeah I think i had something like that but because i am running multiple sites with different domains from the same instance of umbraco I thought I would have to be more specific.

L

Okay so i have done a bit more looking and I had the web.config set to <httpErrors existingResponse="PassThrough" />

When i took this off i get a regular grey and red 404 page. I did a bit more looking and it seems that if i run my site under .net4 integrated pipline then all pages should be handled correctly.

BUT

Before i switch my site over are there changes to the web config i should make? my site is running 4.5.2 any help would be aces.

L

I think you can just change the site to Integrated mode, there shouldn't be anything else you need to change as far as I can remember.

No worries! Glad you got it working!

:)

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