Comments on: HTTP Redirection in IIS 7 on Windows Server 2008

By: Tabassum

Tabassum — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:49:16 +0000

Hi,
It’s a great article, but my issue is that how to redirect between virtual pages i.e I have a page in aspx(~/sample.aspx) and I used URL rewriting for that page now the new url is something like ~/sample/sample.html which is rewrite to ~/sample.aspx now I want that
if user type the url ~/sample.html or ~/sample.aspx then the url is redirected to ~/sample/sample.html.
Please guid me on the above issue

By: hein

hein — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:53:24 +0000

HTTP Redirect is missing on my IIS7 on window server 2008. Do I need to install this seperately or ?

By: nidhi tiwari

nidhi tiwari — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:29:36 +0000

if we created web.config in client’s site then how to use it for redirection of www url to non www url or vise versa.

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 01:49:42 +0000

Excellent info. All the other sites talked about scripting the 301 redirect, which is a bit dirty, when you have access to the IIS console!

Cheers.

By: Dave Koehler

Dave Koehler — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:36:04 +0000

Hello,

I hope you can spend a few minutes looking at a rather unique issue I’m having with IIS 7 on a Windows Server 2008 machine.

We develop our websites using Cold Fusion and Flex. Because some of the data our
clients store in our databases is sensitive, we have a Secure Certificate
installed on the directory …/inetpub/sslroot. All our secure clients
websites reside under sslroot. In order to access the certificate, a user
logging into a site, say, at …/inetpub/sslroot/ClientSite/loginfile.cfm
must be redirected back to …/inetpub/sslroot. I have setup the redirect to a physical location somewhere other than under inetpub/sslroot. I have put the redirect to …/inetpub/wwwroot/ClientSite (I’ve tried other locations as well). The IIS 7 web.config file correctly shows where the redirect actually goes. In this case it goes to https://securecertificatename.companyname.com/ClientSite.

That all works just fine. A person goes to the website, gets the login
screen from ClientSite and logs in. This is where the trouble begins. A
Flash screen appears that needs to access some cfc files located in a
directory at …inetpub/sslroot/ClientSite/cfc but, instead, it looks for
the files at …inetpub/wwwroot/ClientSite/cfc and because those files are
not there, an error is thrown.

The trouble is that all this works just fine using IIS 6 and that’s why I think it’s an IIS 7 issue and not Flex or Coldfusion.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Dave Koehler

By: Kumaravelan

Kumaravelan — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:56:09 +0000

Thankyou dude…

By: Yves Germain

Yves Germain — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:48:11 +0000

Add a comment that if you don’t see HTTP redirection in Windows 2008, you have to add the role in IIS 7.0

By: Mohamed Fki

Mohamed Fki — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 10:31:40 +0000

I do not see the HTTP REDIRECT in IIS7 manager. how do to install it. Thanks in advance.

By: Bob

Bob — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:20:44 +0000

Brian, go into Server Manager and look in the IIS section. you will see a section called “role services”. You will see in there that HTTP redirection is not installed. This was the case with mine (windows 2008 x64 and domain controller). You can then install it from there.

By: Cort

Cort — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:30:08 +0000

I’m really having problems with this. I redesigned an html website in aspx. So now I have two websites; an old html and a new aspx – copies except for the redesign and new directories, etc. At this point the old website (hosted by one host) is now pointed at the new website (on a different host).

I’ve tried the redirect (this and others) several times without success. I selected an html file in the old website – redirected it to the appropriate file in the new website – carefully following the procedure – and nothing happened. I’m really sketchy on this but if I’m changing settings on IIS on my computer why would they communicate to the remote site on my hosts server? I don’t publish them to the remote host – the only thing I publish to the remote server is my website. How do they get there? (I’m a novice obviously)

In any case I’ve been completely stuck. If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:16:12 +0000

I made a mistake in my post above… I used the variable $V (not $S). So the example URL should be http://www.newdomain.com$V$Q

By: Sam

Sam — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:50:57 +0000

In IIS6, when redirecting all pages to a new domain, I had to use server variables. This made sure links to dynamic pages were handled correctly.

E.g., I’d create a permanent redirection to a URL and use two server variables: $S and $Q like so…

http://www.newdomain.com$S$Q

Would I need to use the same variables in IIS7? Or are dynamic pages handled automatically?

Thanks for the great article!
-Sam

By: David Lawlor

David Lawlor — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:55:49 +0000

Brian-

HTTP redirection might not be enabled by default, you will have to enable it on the webserver. If you have command line access:

Run a command prompt as Administrator
Type: cd \windows\system32\inetsrv
Hit enter
Type: appcmd set config /section:httpRedirect /enabled:true
Hit enter

It may require a restart of IIS service. If you are using a hosted shared solution you will need to contact them to enable this.

Hope that helps.

Dave

By: Brian Knoblauch

Brian Knoblauch — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:29:21 +0000

This is exactly what I need to do, but I don’t have the “HTTP Redirect” icon! All the rest of them are there, but the redirect is missing.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:41:52 +0000

Nice post! Just what I needed for a http to https redirect. The overview of the different types of redirects was very helpful. Thanks.

By: ed0g

ed0g — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 17:55:29 +0000

Ryan Guest,

I don’t remember the exact details, but OWA is written in IIS6 classic mode, and the redirect module has to be added to that view somehow, or it is not possible. This is because of how OWA is written…

Not much help, but perhaps just enough to get it started (it being a google search)

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:21:35 +0000

Jerry,

Great article! I have completed the redirects from non-www. to www. for canonicalization reasons. I am also trying to redirect the /index.asp page to always be loaded as the .com page, with no index.asp.
I am attempting to do this to complete the canonicalization on my site. I have no problems achieving this result on apache servers but I have not found a solution on IIS servers. The problem that I am running into is that a 301 redirect from index.asp to just .com puts the query into a loop.
I would greatly appreciate any insight or suggestions into how to rectify this issue.
Thanks again Jerry, for the insightful article you have written!

By: Ryan Guest

Ryan Guest — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:41:46 +0000

Hi Dave,

I have tried setting the rediect for both the default web site and the localhost to “/owa” and “https://webmail.MYDOMAIN.com/owa” however, neither seem to work. Do I need to alter any premissions or is there something else I’m missing?

Any help would be greatly appreaciated.

Regards,

By: jagdish

jagdish — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:59:07 +0000

on my site I want to redirect all the pages to new site except the home page.

We are moving our site to new Domain but want the home page of the old site still running. Is it possible from IIS setting ?

Thanks

jagdish

By: Jami

Jami — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:08:20 +0000

thank you! any idea how to set up a 404 page on IIS?