301 Redirect sub-domains to sub-folders (Umbraco vs. IIS)
I am struggling with this issue and I have not been able to come up with a workable solution. I spent two days now searching both Our and Stackoverflow to no avail. Lots of similar problems but none of the solutions/suggestions seem to be working for me.
I have this basic structure:
|Home |PageA |PageB |PageFoo |PageBar |PageC
with the URL: "site.domain.org" as the base of the site at the Home page.
The DNS is configured to send *.site.domain.org to the IP address but what I need to have happen is if someone were to enter "foo.site.domain.org" into the browser window they get sent to "site.domain.org/foo" and similarly entering "bar.site.domain.org" will bring them to "site.domain.org/bar". There is a long, but finite list of these redirects I am trying to listen for, and all other traffic would simply end up at the main page.
I have bungled around with the Manage Hostnames feature in Umbraco by setting a hostname on PageFoo for the address "foo.site.domain.org" and that works great for bringing up the page 'PageFoo', but the URL in the browser remains pointing to the non-existant "foo.site.domian.org" and I need that to change to "site.domain.org/foo". Oh yeah, and that all stops working once I start doing some standard SEO redirects in IIS (ie. enforcing the www, lowercase, trailing slash...). Perhaps another mistake in my configuration, but I would think that you should be able to do both?
After failing at doing things within Umbraco, I turned my attention to IIS7. Using the URL Rewrite from there (which adds the rules in web.config instead of the umbraco UrlRewriting.config) I have managed to make progress, but not yet reached a solution. I have gotten particularly stuck with the regex to parse out the subdomain while ignoring the presence, or lack thereof, of "http://" and/or "www."
This expression works on everything I tested except breaks on "www.site.domain.org" as {R:4} in this case gives me "www". If this is even an appropriate solution, someone with regex-foo might be able to suggest a fix?
Finally, my two real questions: Is what I am trying to accomplish better to attack in Umbraco or in IIS (and I am curious to know why, not just get the concensus vote of the community), and how to progress with whichever is the best solution.
301 Redirect sub-domains to sub-folders (Umbraco vs. IIS)
I am struggling with this issue and I have not been able to come up with a workable solution. I spent two days now searching both Our and Stackoverflow to no avail. Lots of similar problems but none of the solutions/suggestions seem to be working for me.
I have this basic structure:
|Home
|PageA
|PageB
|PageFoo
|PageBar
|PageC
with the URL: "site.domain.org" as the base of the site at the Home page.
The DNS is configured to send *.site.domain.org to the IP address but what I need to have happen is if someone were to enter "foo.site.domain.org" into the browser window they get sent to "site.domain.org/foo" and similarly entering "bar.site.domain.org" will bring them to "site.domain.org/bar". There is a long, but finite list of these redirects I am trying to listen for, and all other traffic would simply end up at the main page.
I have bungled around with the Manage Hostnames feature in Umbraco by setting a hostname on PageFoo for the address "foo.site.domain.org" and that works great for bringing up the page 'PageFoo', but the URL in the browser remains pointing to the non-existant "foo.site.domian.org" and I need that to change to "site.domain.org/foo". Oh yeah, and that all stops working once I start doing some standard SEO redirects in IIS (ie. enforcing the www, lowercase, trailing slash...). Perhaps another mistake in my configuration, but I would think that you should be able to do both?
After failing at doing things within Umbraco, I turned my attention to IIS7. Using the URL Rewrite from there (which adds the rules in web.config instead of the umbraco UrlRewriting.config) I have managed to make progress, but not yet reached a solution. I have gotten particularly stuck with the regex to parse out the subdomain while ignoring the presence, or lack thereof, of "http://" and/or "www."
This expression works on everything I tested except breaks on "www.site.domain.org" as {R:4} in this case gives me "www". If this is even an appropriate solution, someone with regex-foo might be able to suggest a fix?
Finally, my two real questions: Is what I am trying to accomplish better to attack in Umbraco or in IIS (and I am curious to know why, not just get the concensus vote of the community), and how to progress with whichever is the best solution.
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