IIS 404 redirecting using a textfile

[ryan_b83]

Pardon my ignorance, I almost never use IIS. Basically is there an IIS equivalent to the Apache .htaccess file? I want to redirect all traffic within a folder to another URL (even when it hit's 404's). All i have found as solutions for this is done through the IIS GUI config, and I do not have access to that.

Thanks,
Ryan

[Ocean10000]

IIS has no such file. You will have to do this via the Administrative tools for managing IIS.

[marcel]

If your host is running IIS 7 and has the 'Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0' installed you can define redirects in your web.config file.

eg:

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<system.webServer>
 <rewrite>
 <rules>
<rule name="Home.htm" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="*/mydirectory/*" />
 <action type="Redirect" url="http://www.website.com/newpage.aspx" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
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* Edit: the rewrite rule above has not been tested, so it may contain errors

[marcel]

Here is some more info on the subject:
[blogs.iis.net...]