Is it possible to move the rules created by the IIS7 rewrite module from the root web config into its own web config file like you can with appsettings and if so how?
I can't seem to get it working, but the way it's described is:
<rewrite>
<rewriteMaps configSource="external.config">
</rewriteMaps>
</rewrite>
Then in the external.config file add your rules:
<rewriteMaps>
<rewriteMap ...
...
</rewriteMaps>
You have to do this with the entire rewriteMaps section: according to this forum post, you can't do this with the rewriteMap: http://forums.iis.net/t/1154113.aspx
This works for me in web.config:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules configSource="web.rules.config" />
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
One cool thing is that the IIS Configuration Editor respects this external file when you edit the rules and writes the changes back to the external file.
If you put:
<system.webServer>
<rewrite configSource="web.rules.config" />
</system.webServer>
it won't work, you get HTTP error 500.19 Internal server error:
Error Code: 0x8007000d
Config Error: Unrecognized attribute 'configSource'
Can anyone point to the definitive MSDN help page on the rewrite element and the configSource attribute? The MSDN article on system.webServer does not mention the rewrite element and I can't find an MSDN page via google.
I found configuration documentation but it doesn't seem to cover use of the configSource attribute.
My guess is that the <rules /> element is implemented as a SectionInformation which has a configSource property while the <rewrite /> element is a ConfigurationSection which does not.
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I have been trying to rewrite my homepage to another ip address in my ASP.Net MVC application. I have installed URL Rewrite and Application Request Routing modules in IIS. I have set the rewrite in my web.config, when i change the action type to redirect it works perfectly, but once i change it back to rewrite it does not work at all.
I have changed the matching url to accept all requests, but still it does not work.
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="node" enabled="true" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="*" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="http://255.255.255.255/" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
It seems like rewriting process has some conflicts with routing. How could i make the priority of rewrite higher?
Firstly you have to configure an Application Request Routing Server Farm that will consist of only one server (you should specify an IP for this server). After that you need to configure a global URL rewrite rule as described here.
The configuration of the URL Rewrite Module in the <rewrite> section is for internal URLs, and cannot rewrite domain or IP of the server:
IIS.NET: A Rewrite action replaces the current URL string with a substitution
string. A substitution string must always specify the URL path (for
example, contoso/test/default.aspx).
What you asked is not an url rewrite, but a reverse proxy. If you have an access to IIS, you can try its reverse proxy configuration, or simply create an HttpHandler, similar to this example. Next option can be http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com
Would there be config inheritance happening?
If so, you can wrap the section you want with <location> to disable inheritence from parent app...
<location path="." inheritInChildApplications="false">
<system.webServer>
...
</system.webServer>
</location>
I'm forced to rebuild my machine from factory default. Everything should be the same, IIS version (7.5), OS (Windows 7), and my website files. However, something is different because after configuring my website and pulling the local site up in my browser, I get the following error...
HTTP Error 500.19 - Internal Server Error The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid. Error Code 0x8007000d
When I look up error code 0x800700d it tells me...
Analysis: This problem occurs because the ApplicationHost.config file or the Web.config file contains a malformed XML element. To resolve this problem, see Resolution 1.
Then offers a resolution of...
Suggested Solution: Delete the malformed XML element from the ApplicationHost.config file or from the Web.config file.
However I see no malformed XML, and when I remove the web.config file altogether, the site loads but URL Rewriting doesn't work (obviously). Furthermore, even if I delete all XML from the web.config file, leaving it blank, I get the same error. It seems to have a problem with the fact that the web.config file exists at all.
For reference, here's the contents of my web.config...
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- this file can be deleted if you're not planning on using URL rewriting with IIS 7. -->
<!-- you can add your own files and folders that should be excluded from URL rewriting by adding them to the "pattern" below. -->
<!-- please read the online documentation on http://cfwheels.org for more information about URL rewriting. -->
<!-- SET ENABLED TO TRUE BELOW TO TURN ON THE URL REWRITING RULES -->
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="ColdFusion on Wheels URL Rewriting" enabled="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="true" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{SCRIPT_NAME}" negate="true" pattern="^/(flex2gateway|jrunscripts|cfide|cfformgateway|railo-context|files|images|javascripts|miscellaneous|stylesheets|robots.txt|sitemap.xml|rewrite.cfm)($|/.*$)" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="/rewrite.cfm/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Anyone have any ideas about how to resolve this issue?
Did you remember to reinstall the rewrite module? It's not included with IIS 7.5 by default.
Beyond that, here is a similar question - I think the part about malformed is a red herring.
After so much pain i could resolve this error. The actual reason for me is i was using some url rewriting in config. After removing error has gone. The below is the code which i have removed from web.config.
<serverRuntime frequentHitThreshold="1" frequentHitTimePeriod="10:00:00"/>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="HTTP to HTTPS redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)"/>
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="off" ignoreCase="true"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="https://wikigurus.com/{R:1}"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
i was in the same situation as you looking for XML.
i found the solution.
in web.config file ,at the top of the file, there is a xml section. delete the content below, this solve my issue, later on the site can be opened.
<system.net>
<defaultProxy>
<proxy autoDetect="true" />
</defaultProxy>
This problem also occurred with me...
try this for Error Code 0x8007000d.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
Delete this line from your web.config file.
This is a malformed XML element.
Delete it or comment it.
just create new site collection and replace the new web.config to the corrupted one, work for me thought
Please install two exe files "dotnet-sdk-3.1.102-win-x64" and "dotnet-hosting-3.1.1-win".
This is my solution structure.
When users hit in this http://localhost/RouteUrl/ URL I want to redirect them to http://localhost/RouteUrl/UI/MainForm.aspx.
In web.config file within system.web section I've written:
<urlMappings enabled="true">
<add url="~/RouteUrl" mappedUrl="~/UI/MainForm.aspx" />
</urlMappings>
And when I browse http://localhost/RouteUrl/ it shows HTTP Error 403.14 - Forbidden. The Web server is configured to not list the contents of this directory
When I directly browse http://localhost/RouteUrl/UI/MainForm.aspx it simply shows the page, doesn't show any error.
I don't want to enable directory browsing. What I'm missing? How I should properly redirect the URL?
Finally I find out the problem. The ~ itself points to the root directory and in <add /> tag I've written url="~/RouteUrl".
So the corrected <add /> tag will be:
<add url="~/" mappedUrl="~/UI/MainForm.aspx" />
I believe your issue is with the trailing /. Your route is to ~/RouteUrl and you are entering ~/RouteUrl/, which would act as the root of a directory and with directory browsing is turned off, you receive a 403 error.
Adding <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
to the <system.webServer> section in the web.config works for me.
I am creating a search page in ASP.NET MVC3.
The url of calling the action was:
http://mydomain/Search?q=searchterm
it works fine if i search the keyword "web.config":
http://mydomain/Search?q=web.config
But now, i want the url to be:
http://mydomain/Search/searchterm
I have done this with adding the route into global.asax, but when i search "web.config", like http://mydomain/Search/web.config the server will end my request, because it thinks i am requesting the physical web.config file in the search directory.
Is there anyway to let asp.net consider the {q} in the url "search/{q}" as the parameter of the search action, not a request of a file?
In your RegisterRoutes in Global.asax you could enable requests for existing files to pass through the routing engine:
routes.RouteExistingFiles = true;
Notice that if you do that all request will now go through the ASP.NET MVC routing engine. So if you don't want to see broken images or javascript and CSS references you will need to explicitly exclude them:
routes.IgnoreRoute("scripts/{resource}.js");
routes.IgnoreRoute("content/{resource}.css");
routes.IgnoreRoute("iamges/{resource}.png");
routes.IgnoreRoute("iamges/{resource}.jpeg");
...
Also if you are hosting your application in IIS 7+ you need to remove some of the security filters that prevent you from serving web.config an .config files in general:
<system.webServer>
<validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true" />
<security>
<requestFiltering>
<fileExtensions>
<remove fileExtension=".config"/>
</fileExtensions>
<hiddenSegments>
<remove segment="web.config"/>
</hiddenSegments>
</requestFiltering>
</security>
</system.webServer>
You could use the URL Rewriter Module in IIS to do this for you; it would remove the necessary logic from Global.asax and allow you to use it across your website for simplifying the urls.
Rewriter Module
Adding a Rewriter Rule
Sample rule:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Rewrite to search">
<match url="^search/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="search.aspx?q={R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
I'm going to be deploying an app in the near future on an IIS7 server, and would like to use the per-application URL rewriting settings in web.config, but this is not an ASP.NET application, so I have no need for anything superfluous.
What is the absolute minimum I need in my web.config in order to run my application and use URL Rewriting?
After lots of googling and stumbling through various articles, I've found this article, which requires installing a URL Rewrite module (not packaged with IIS7). After that it's pretty simple.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule>
<match url="start\.html" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="finish.html" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
I was pretty surprised that an extra download was required -- I thought this functionality was supposed to be baked in (testing on Win7x64). Oh well, at least it works.