IIS Rewrite Module 2.0 released

Beta version though...

[marcel]

Today IIS team has released the URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7 – Beta. This is an incremental release that includes all the features from version 1.1, and adds support for outbound response rewriting. More specifically, it can be used to:

• Replace the URLs generated by a web application in the response HTML with a more user friendly and search engine friendly equivalent.
  
• Modify the links in the HTML markup generated by a web application behind a reverse proxy.
  
• Fix up the content of any HTTP response by using regular expression pattern matching.

source: IIS Blog [blogs.iis.net]

More info:
URL Rewrite Module 2.0 usage walkthroughs [learn.iis.net]
URL Rewrite Module 2.0 configuration reference [learn.iis.net]

This looks great, I was already very happy with version 1.1, but the ability to clean up URLs before they are sent to the browser will be great for some of the older sites I manage.

[centime]

I developed my own rewrite engine using the .net 2.0 tech, I sincerely hope that continues to be compartible with all variants of .net as the various host web servers get updated

[salzano]

i was hoping that this module would make it easy to do non-www to www redirects easier than in IIS 6.0, but i have been let down.

sadly, creating two website profiles and using a permanent redirect to www site com$S$Q was much easier than setting up a redirect in IIS 7.0.

i know it may be easier to just make changes to the web.config file, but i have to make simple instructions for a coworker to work on setting up the redirects and XML code is a bit beyond her.

[marcel]

Hi salzano,

Here is some code for a non-www to www redirect:

<rule name="Redirect to www" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^example.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://www.example.com/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

You can also group multiple rules [webmasterworld.com]

I am currently writing up an intro to the new module with a collection of useful rules. Hopefully I will have this ready soon for posting.