What happens when a rewrite rule is matched?
In a rediret rule, the URL will change if a redirect rule is matched. The other type of rewrite is Rewrite redirect. Rewrite rules when matched won’t change the URL in a user’s browser, they simply display content from a different location and make it look like it’s coming from the original URL.
How to create URL Rewrite rules within IIs?
After installing ARR, you should be able to see it within IIS on the server level. Click on it. Click the ‘server proxy’ settings button. Tick the ‘Enable proxy’ button. Doing this will now allow you to create Rewrite rules that point to pages on websites that don’t live in your web server.
When do you need to re-direct a URL?
This is where a URL needs to change and redirect someone to a new location. With a re-direct the URL in the user browser will change. If they type in www.website.com, they will be redirected to a completely new URL. This URL can be another page, or file in your website, or it can be a file, image of whatever you like on another website.
Can a rewrite be done to a remote server?
By default IIS won’t allow you to do a rewrite to a remote server for obvious security reasons. Unless you need a specific reason to do this, there’s no point in exposing it otherwise as it is a bit of a risk. To set-up IIS as a reverse proxy, you will need to install Application Request Routing.
Which is the complex part of a redirect?
The complex part of the redirects is usually the regular expressions part, in the tag. Getting the regex right is usually the complex part of getting a redirect working. To help claify things, I’ll give some examples of rules and how they match to actual URL’s:
Is it bad to use multiple rewrite rules in Apache?
Transparently provide content from other servers, because your web-server fetches it and re-serves it. This is a dangerous flag, as a poorly written one will turn your web-server into an open-proxy and That is Bad. PT = Pass Through. Take into account Alias statements in RewriteRule matching. QSA = QSAppend.