How to achieve URL rewrite in mvc3? - asp.net

Question

My directory structure in MVC3 is below.
I installed URL-rewriting 2.0. I have added URL Rewriting.
Web.config
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
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<configuration>
<configSections>
<sectionGroup name="elmah">
<section name="security" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.SecuritySectionHandler, Elmah" />
<section name="errorLog" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorLogSectionHandler, Elmah" />
<section name="errorMail" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorMailSectionHandler, Elmah" />
<section name="errorFilter" requirePermission="false" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterSectionHandler, Elmah" />
</sectionGroup>
<section name="dotless" type="dotless.Core.configuration.DotlessConfigurationSectionHandler, dotless.Core" />
<section name="combres" type="Combres.ConfigSectionSetting, Combres, Version=2.2, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=1ca6b37997dd7536" />
<sectionGroup name="dotNetOpenAuth" type="DotNetOpenAuth.Configuration.DotNetOpenAuthSection, DotNetOpenAuth.Core">
<section name="messaging" type="DotNetOpenAuth.Configuration.MessagingElement, DotNetOpenAuth.Core" requirePermission="false" allowLocation="true" />
<section name="reporting" type="DotNetOpenAuth.Configuration.ReportingElement, DotNetOpenAuth.Core" requirePermission="false" allowLocation="true" />
<section name="openid" type="DotNetOpenAuth.Configuration.OpenIdElement, DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId" requirePermission="false" allowLocation="true" />
<section name="oauth" type="DotNetOpenAuth.Configuration.OAuthElement, DotNetOpenAuth.OAuth" requirePermission="false" allowLocation="true" />
</sectionGroup>
<section name="glimpse" type="Glimpse.Core.Configuration.Section, Glimpse.Core" />
</configSections>
<connectionStrings>
<add name="ApplicationServices" connectionString="data source=.\SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=SSPI;AttachDBFilename=|DataDirectory|aspnetdb.mdf;User Instance=true" providerName="System.Data.SqlClient" />
</connectionStrings>
<appSettings>
<add key="webpages:Version" value="1.0.0.0" />
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.disableHandler" value="false" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.disableHandleErrorFilter" value="false" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.requiresAuthentication" value="false" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.IgnoreDefaultRoute" value="false" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.allowedRoles" value="*" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.allowedUsers" value="*" />
<add key="elmah.mvc.route" value="elmah" />
<add key="CombresSectionName" value="combres" />
</appSettings>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"></customErrors>
<compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.0">
<assemblies>
<add assembly="System.Web.Abstractions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Helpers, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Routing, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.Mvc, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
<add assembly="System.Web.WebPages, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35" />
</assemblies>
</compilation>
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account/LogOn" timeout="2880" />
</authentication>
<membership>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlMembershipProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" enablePasswordRetrieval="false" enablePasswordReset="true" requiresQuestionAndAnswer="false" requiresUniqueEmail="false" maxInvalidPasswordAttempts="5" minRequiredPasswordLength="6" minRequiredNonalphanumericCharacters="0" passwordAttemptWindow="10" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</membership>
<profile>
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlProfileProvider" type="System.Web.Profile.SqlProfileProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</profile>
<roleManager enabled="false">
<providers>
<clear />
<add name="AspNetSqlRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.SqlRoleProvider" connectionStringName="ApplicationServices" applicationName="/" />
<add name="AspNetWindowsTokenRoleProvider" type="System.Web.Security.WindowsTokenRoleProvider" applicationName="/" />
</providers>
</roleManager>
<pages>
<namespaces>
<add namespace="System.Web.Helpers" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Ajax" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Mvc.Html" />
<add namespace="System.Web.Routing" />
<add namespace="System.Web.WebPages" />
<add namespace="Combres" />
<add namespace="Combres.Mvc" />
</namespaces>
</pages>
<httpHandlers>
<add verb="POST,GET,HEAD" path="elmah.axd" type="Elmah.ErrorLogPageFactory, Elmah" />
<add path="*.less" verb="GET" type="dotless.Core.LessCssHttpHandler, dotless.Core" />
<add path="glimpse.axd" verb="GET" type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpHandler, Glimpse.AspNet" />
</httpHandlers>
<!-- Glimpse: This can be commented in to add additional data to the Trace tab when using WebForms
<trace writeToDiagnosticsTrace="true" enabled="true" pageOutput="false"/> -->
<httpModules>
<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" />
<add name="ErrorMail" type="Elmah.ErrorMailModule, Elmah" />
<add name="ErrorFilter" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterModule, Elmah" />
<add name="Glimpse" type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpModule, Glimpse.AspNet" />
</httpModules>
</system.web>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="WebFormToMyPage" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^WEBFORM1.aspx" />
<action type="Redirect" url="MyDirectory/MyPage" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
<add name="ErrorLog" type="Elmah.ErrorLogModule, Elmah" preCondition="managedHandler" />
<add name="ErrorMail" type="Elmah.ErrorMailModule, Elmah" preCondition="managedHandler" />
<add name="ErrorFilter" type="Elmah.ErrorFilterModule, Elmah" preCondition="managedHandler" />
<add name="Glimpse" type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpModule, Glimpse.AspNet" preCondition="integratedMode" />
</modules>
<handlers>
<add name="dotless" path="*.less" verb="GET" type="dotless.Core.LessCssHttpHandler,dotless.Core" resourceType="File" preCondition="" />
<add name="Glimpse" path="glimpse.axd" verb="GET" type="Glimpse.AspNet.HttpHandler, Glimpse.AspNet" preCondition="integratedMode" />
</handlers>
</system.webServer>
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-2.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="AjaxMin" publicKeyToken="21ef50ce11b5d80f" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-4.84.4790.14405" newVersion="4.84.4790.14405" />
</dependentAssembly>
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Net.Http" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="0.0.0.0-2.2.13.0" newVersion="2.2.13.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
<!-- This prevents the Windows Event Log from frequently logging that HMAC1 is being used (when the other party needs it). -->
<legacyHMACWarning enabled="0" />
<!-- When targeting ASP.NET MVC 3, this assemblyBinding makes MVC 1 and 2 references relink
to MVC 3 so libraries such as DotNetOpenAuth that compile against MVC 1 will work with it.
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="System.Web.Mvc" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.0.0-3.0.0.0" newVersion="3.0.0.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
</assemblyBinding>
-->
</runtime>
<elmah></elmah>
<dotless minifyCss="false" cache="true" web="false" />
<combres definitionUrl="~/App_Data/combres.xml" />
<system.net>
<defaultProxy enabled="true" />
<settings>
<!-- This setting causes .NET to check certificate revocation lists (CRL)
before trusting HTTPS certificates. But this setting tends to not
be allowed in shared hosting environments. -->
<!--<servicePointManager checkCertificateRevocationList="true"/>-->
</settings>
</system.net>
<dotNetOpenAuth>
<messaging>
<untrustedWebRequest>
<whitelistHosts>
<!-- Uncomment to enable communication with localhost (should generally not activate in production!) -->
<!--<add name="localhost" />-->
</whitelistHosts>
</untrustedWebRequest>
</messaging>
<!-- Allow DotNetOpenAuth to publish usage statistics to library authors to improve the library. -->
<reporting enabled="true" />
<!-- This is an optional configuration section where aspects of dotnetopenauth can be customized. -->
<!-- For a complete set of configuration options see http://www.dotnetopenauth.net/developers/code-snippets/configuration-options/ -->
<openid>
<relyingParty>
<security requireSsl="false">
<!-- Uncomment the trustedProviders tag if your relying party should only accept positive assertions from a closed set of OpenID Providers. -->
<!--<trustedProviders rejectAssertionsFromUntrustedProviders="true">
<add endpoint="https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/ud" />
</trustedProviders>-->
</security>
<behaviors>
<!-- The following OPTIONAL behavior allows RPs to use SREG only, but be compatible
with OPs that use Attribute Exchange (in various formats). -->
<add type="DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.RelyingParty.Behaviors.AXFetchAsSregTransform, DotNetOpenAuth.OpenId.RelyingParty" />
</behaviors>
</relyingParty>
<provider></provider>
</openid>
</dotNetOpenAuth>
<uri>
<!-- The uri section is necessary to turn on .NET 3.5 support for IDN (international domain names),
which is necessary for OpenID urls with unicode characters in the domain/host name.
It is also required to put the Uri class into RFC 3986 escaping mode, which OpenID and OAuth require. -->
<idn enabled="All" />
<iriParsing enabled="true" />
</uri>
<glimpse defaultRuntimePolicy="On" endpointBaseUri="~/Glimpse.axd">
<!-- If you are having issues with Glimpse, please include this. It will help us figure out whats going on.
<logging level="Trace" />-->
<!-- Want to use Glimpse on a remote server? Ignore the LocalPolicy by removing this comment.-->
<runtimePolicies>
<ignoredTypes>
<add type="Glimpse.AspNet.Policy.LocalPolicy, Glimpse.AspNet"/>
</ignoredTypes>
</runtimePolicies>
</glimpse>
</configuration>
When somebody is trying to type below url
http://localhost/webform1.aspx
It should be turned to like below...
http://localhost/MyDirectory/MyPage
How can i achieve this?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell, you actually want two things:
When a user navigates to /MyDirectory/MyPage you want to return whatever WebForm1.aspx renders.
When a user navigates to /WebForm1.aspx you want to redirect him to /MyDirectory/MyPage so that the URL in the address bar changes.
For the first one, add this route before your default route:
routes.MapPageRoute("MyPage", "MyDirectory/MyPage", "~/WebForm1.aspx");
This will make /MyDirectory/MyPage an alias to /WebForm1.aspx.
For the second one, add the following rewrite rule to the system.webServer section of your web.config file:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="WebFormToMyPage" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^WebForm1.aspx" />
<action type="Redirect" url="MyDirectory/MyPage" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>

Answer 2

It sounds like you just want WebForm1.aspx to take you over to MyDirectory/MyPage. I would suggest redirecting the user to your new page:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="WebFormToMyPage" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^webform1.aspx" />
<action type="Redirect" url="MyDirectory/MyPage" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>