Debug and troubleshoot rewrite rules easily

RuslanY Blog — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 05:13:28 GMT

One of the very cool features of URL Rewrite Module is its integration with IIS Failed Request Tracing . When you have rewrite rules that do not work the way you expect them to work - enable Failed Request Tracing and you will get the entire history of how rewrite rules were applied on the requested URL. I use Failed Request Tracing all the time and it has proven to be a great help when debugging and troubleshooting rewrite rules. When you enable Failed Request Tracing and make an HTTP request that you want to trace, IIS creates a trace log file fr NNNNNN .xml located by default at %WINDIR%\inetpub\logs\FailedReqLogFiles\W3SVC N . This xml file references freb.xsl file that is used to render the trace data in a web browser in a human-friendly...(read more)

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Debug and troubleshoot rewrite rules easily