.htaccess to web.config

[Sub_Seven]

Hello everyone,

I recently moved a website from hostgator (Apache server) to an Azure App Service (IIS) and I'm having issues transferring the .htaccess rewrite rules to web.config.

I tried using the IIS manager to convert the rules but when I try the page I get the following error: "The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable."

This is the original .htaccess rule: RewriteRule ^tours/([^/]+) /tours?n=$1 [NC]

This is what IIS manager translated it to:

<rule name="Imported Rule 2">
 <match url="^tours/([^/]+)" />
 <action type="Rewrite" url="/tours?n={R:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>

Can anyone please help me understand what is wrong here?

Thanks in advance for any help provided.

[whitespace]

Was your original .htaccess file in the document root of your site?

You can try removing the slash prefix on the action "url" parameter (although I doubt that this will make a difference). In other words:

<action type="Rewrite" url="tours?n={R:1}" .....

What is significant with your RewriteRule is that there is no "L" flag, so processing continues and is possibly rewritten again? The IIS rules will continue by default, but I don't know how they chain together (with mod_rewrite, the output of the last is the input of the next and so on...).

[Sub_Seven]

Thanks whitespace,

I tried your suggestion but yeah, this didn't make a difference. I'll analyze my options, if you have any other suggestions please send them over.

Have a nice day.

[Sub_Seven]

Hello,

Just posting a reply to inform I fixed it with the rule below, note that it only worked when I applied it first before any other rules, otherwise it will still send an error:

<rule name="Rewrite to tours.php">
 <match url="^tours/([_0-9a-z-]+)" />
 <action type="Rewrite" url="tours?n={R:1}" />
</rule>

Thanks