ASPX url rewrite

[Adam_C]

Does anyone have any info on rewriting dynamic to static looking URLs for a site using ASPX technology?

[f00sion]

I dont think there is anything much different that you can do with .net as far as url rewriting over the classic asp methods. the best solution is to use an isapi filter such as isapirewrite or iisrewrite.

[Adam_C]

OK - cheers.

This is not my area of speciality, but have loads of info on isapirewrite, etc.

[TheWhippinpost]

Try this - I've not used it, I grabbed it out of me snippet file.

In your Global.asax file, modify the Application_BeginRequest event as the following:

protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    
HttpContext incoming = HttpContext.Current;
string oldpath = incoming.Request.Path.ToLower();
string pageid; // page id requested
   
  // Regular expressions to grab the page id from the pageX.aspx
  Regex regex = new Regex(@"page(\d+).aspx", RegexOptions.IgnoreCase 
  ¦ RegexOptions.IgnorePatternWhitespace);
  MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(oldpath);
  If (matches.Count > 0) 
 {
    // Extract the page id and send it to Process.aspx
    pageid = matches[0].Groups[1].ToString();
    incoming.RewritePath("Process.aspx?pageid=" + pageid); 
 }
  else
  {
 // Display path if it doesn’t contain pageX.aspx
  incoming.RewritePath(oldpath 
  }
} 

In the above code, URLs of incoming requests are scanned to determine if the URL includes “pageX.aspx”, where X=1,2,3…n

Your code
Next create a file Process.aspx which would display your web site content based on the pageid parameter (pageid=1…n) just like normal.

Eg...

<%
string pageid = Request.QueryString["pageid"];
// Create the page content based on this pageid taken here
%>