Programming URL redirect in IIS 1

[sharedworld]

Hello,

I'm looking for a way that when my customers are clicking on

http://www.mysite.com/customer12

it should redirect they automaticly to

http://www.mysite.com/index.asp?customer=12.

I don't want to do it by creating a folder named downloads (manually or with fso) because I have a lot of redirection that I need and I don't want 200 folders on my root folder...

I thought on using ISAPI_Rewrite from HeliconTech.com, and then use a RewriteRule to actually rewrite the url (here is the syntax: RewriteRule /customer12/? /index.asp?\?customer=12 [I,R])

This is working for me, and the settings file is a ini file, so I'm editing it with fso, but the problem is that if I have a folder named customer12 on the root, IIS will ignore it because of the ISAPI_Rewrite filter. So I'm looking for an another way of someone has ideas please share it...

Thanks

 

[myatia]

You could build some functionality into your 404 Not Found page so that when someone tries to access a certain URL like /customer12, they are redirected to /index.asp?customer=12. You'll end up with a lot of 404 errors in your log, but this is a quick and easy to way to get it done. Let me know if this makes sense; I'm feeling a little incoherent today.

Misty

 

[Genimuse]

That's how I've done it before... catch it on the 404 and redirect as necessary.

It doesn't solve your problem of "what if there's a real directory with that name," but I don't know how you'd ever solve that, as how would you know what the user intended if the directory name was valid?

 

[sharedworld]

thanks myatia, that's what i'm working on... btw I found another solution too by creating virtual folders redirecting to an url, but your solution is the best. thanks again