How do I redirect an entire address in IIS7 URL Rewrite

Question

My company has a promotion in a magazine that was created before we implemented our new site. Since the release of the new site we use a inbound rewrite rule to redirect anything with a www. This advertisement however is http://www.openeye.net/2011rspromo/ so when a user visits it it redirects back to the homepage.

I need it to redirect to http://openeye.net/promotions/reportstar-free-cm-610/ instead and can't seem to find the right combination in URL Rewrites to get it to work.

Any help would be appreciated.

Default www redirect

What I'm trying to do

Answer 1

It is a better approach to this issue to register an additional www.openeye.net as an additional host header for the openeye.net site.

You can do this in IIS7 by right-clicking the site and selecting Edit Bindings. There should be one default binding such as

 Type        Host Name        Port        IP Address
 http        openeye.net       80         00.00.00.000*

*This should be either the IP of your server or "All Unassigned".

Click Add, then enter a new binding with all of the same information, except that the Host name should read "www.openeye.net" instead of "openeye.net". When you are done your binding will look like:

 Type        Host Name        Port        IP Address
 http        openeye.net       80         00.00.00.000
 http        www.openeye.net   80         00.00.00.000

Please note that this will not actually redirect the request for http://www.openeye.net/2011rspromo/ to http://openeye.net/2011rspromo/, but will bind any such requests to the intended location. So, both URLs will resolve to the same resource.

Answer 2

smartcaveman is correct, but you don't want both openeye.net and www.openeye.net to both work (for SEO purposes).

So, make sure you trigger the Canonical domain name rule as well. Again, you'll need all the host names in the bindings as smartcaveman detailed above.

Answer 3

You're close. Add both sites www.openeye.net and openeye.net to the bindings then follow these steps.

1. Open URL rewrite
2. Click add rule
3. Click Blank rule
4. Name = call it whatever you want.
5. Requested URL: = Matches the pattern
6. Using: = Wildcards
7. Pattern: = *
8. Ignore case is checked by default
9. Add conditions
10. Logical Grouping: Match All
11. Input = {HTTP_HOST}
12. Type = Does Not Match the Pattren
13. Pattern = openeye.net
14. Leave Server variables alone
15. Action = Redirect
16. Action Properties = http://openeye.net/{R:1}
17. Redirect type: Permanent (301)
18. Click apply