Contents tagged with URL Rewrite
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Tip #38: Did you know... How to use Failed Request Tracing to trace Rewrite Rules?
IIS7.0 Failed Request Tracing (FRT) is a powerful troubleshooting tool for request-processing failures. More details regarding FRT and how to enable it can be be found here.
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Tip #36: Did you know... How to manage pilot or beta program for your site using Application Request Routing in IIS7.0?
Won't it be cool if you can target and route appropriate users of your site to your pilot/beta/new looking site based on user's profile. This may help you in managing select users who have previously signed for pilot program and redirect them to new looking web site and gather feedback. This is a very typical situation when your web site is evolving or going a major change. IIS7.0 Application Request Routing (ARR) module helps you achieve this. The other situation where this can help is to limit and manage the amount of traffic that is routed to pilot site. There can be numerous other scenarios like ones mentioned where ARR can assist but the focus of the tip will be to learn how to get this done through ARR. You can apply it to other related scenario too.
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Tip #31: Did you know... How to have user friendly URL using IIS 7.0 URL Rewrite module?
It's always good to have friendly URL so that people visiting your site find it easier to remember. Asking your user to remember http://www.contoso.com/article.aspx?id=342&title=URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough for URL Rewrite walkthrough is not the nicest thing to do. Won't it be cool if user can be provided with URL like http://www.contoso.com/article/342/URL-Rewrite-Walkthrough. This indeed resonates better and is much easier to remember.
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Tip#25: Did you know... You can have canonical URLs and Redirects with IIS 7.0
Canonical URLs help you to make your links Search Engine Optimized (SEO). For human it is easy to understand that http://www.live.com is same as http://live.com. But many search engines will not make this assumption and treat them as two separate entries. This will split the rankings among them and lower the overall relevance of the site.