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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Http redirect on IIS7

When I moved my blog from Blogger to DasBlog I wanted to keep rss.xml and atom.xml, and redirect them to the new DasBlog url’s. I googled a bit but didn’t find much. And the ones I found I wasn’t able to use (maybe because I’m running Vista RC2). Anyway, last night enough was enough and I decided to put this to an end. I started to look at IIS’s config file applicationHost.config (usually found at C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config) and one section got my attention: <httpRedirect enabled="false" />

The problem was finding schema documentation for this element. After a while I found this (http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=2&subtabid=25&i=946&p=24). To solve my problem I used this:

<httpRedirect enabled="true"

exactDestination="true”

httpResponseStatus="Permanent">

<add wildcard="/rss.xml"

destination="/SyndicationService.asmx/GetRss" />

<add wildcard="/atom.xml"

destination="/SyndicationService.asmx/GetAtom" />

</httpRedirect>

So if you have a similar problem I hope this helps.

Update:
I upgraded to Vista Release and suddenly the redirect didn't work anymore. I tried and tried and tried and gave up. I tried again and came over this:

That nailed it. Don't know why I didn't see this before, but it would be nice though if the error message said something about enabling this feature.

DasBlog | IIS | Vista | Web

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:27:57 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

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Monday, January 07, 2008 2:49:19 PM (W. Europe Standard Time, UTC+01:00)

Nice catch! You prob just saved me a couple of hours troubleshooting

Cavan

Cavan

Thursday, April 03, 2008 11:02:10 PM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

Thank you very much for posting this! I've been ripping my hair out wondering why the hell the damn thing won't redirect when it's because the damn redirect feature wasn't installed. DUH.

you're right. an error message, or a suggestion, or SOMETHING FOR GOD'S SAKE would have been nice.

thanks again!

SelArom

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 12:22:30 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

You saved me heaps of time. Under Win2008 server, you install the feature via the settings on the "Web Server" role.

Damien Siviero

Tuesday, September 09, 2008 1:13:47 AM (W. Europe Daylight Time, UTC+02:00)

I'm only glad to help :-) Thanks for the 2008 info. I'll probably need that when I move my blog from Vista to 2008.

Jon Arild Tørresdal

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Hi, I'm Jon Arild Tørresdal. I’m an Architect for the Norwegian insurance company Frende Forsikring, chapter Lead of Norwegian .Net User Group (NNUG) in Bergen and .NET editor for InfoQ. I've been coding professionally since 1998 and on .NET since 1999. I'm an early adapter always looking for new ways to put technology to use for the company I work for, at NNUG or just as an excuse to do some coding at home.

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