Setting up redirect in web config file

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I m trying to redirect some unfriendly urls with more descriptive ones  These urls end in  aspx cid 3916 with the last digits being different for each category name page  I want it to instead redirect to Category CategoryName 3916   I tried this in the web config file    lt location path  Category aspx cid 3916  gt   lt system webServer gt     lt httpRedirect enabled  true  destination  http   www site com Category CategoryName 3916  httpResponseStatus  Permanent    gt   lt  system webServer gt      but since it didn t end with just the extension  it didn t work  Is there an easy way to get this to work  I m using IIS 7 5

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Open web config in the directory where the old pages reside Then add code for the old location path and new destination as follows    lt configuration gt     lt location path  services htm  gt       lt system webServer gt         lt httpRedirect enabled  true  destination  http   domain com services  httpResponseStatus  Permanent    gt       lt  system webServer gt     lt  location gt     lt location path  products htm  gt       lt system webServer gt         lt httpRedirect enabled  true  destination  http   domain com products  httpResponseStatus  Permanent    gt       lt  system webServer gt     lt  location gt   lt  configuration gt     You may add as many location paths as necessary

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In case that you need to add the http redirect in many sites  you could use it as a c  console program      class Program       static int Main string   args                if  args Length  lt  3                        Console WriteLine  Please enter an argument  for example insert-redirect   web config http   stackoverflow com                return 1                     if  args Length    3                        if  args 0  ToLower       -insert-redirect                                 var path   args 1                   var value   args 2                    if  InsertRedirect path  value                       Console WriteLine  Redirect added                     return 0                                   Console WriteLine  Wrong parameters             return 1              static bool InsertRedirect string path  string value                try                       XmlDocument doc   new XmlDocument                 doc Load path                   This should find the appSettings node  should be only one               XmlNode nodeAppSettings   doc SelectSingleNode    system webServer                 var existNode   nodeAppSettings SelectSingleNode  httpRedirect                if  existNode    null                  return false                  Create new  lt add gt  node             XmlNode nodeNewKey   doc CreateElement  httpRedirect                 XmlAttribute attributeEnable   doc CreateAttribute  enabled                XmlAttribute attributeDestination   doc CreateAttribute  destination                  XmlAttribute attributeResponseStatus   doc CreateAttribute  httpResponseStatus                    Assign values to both - the key and the value attributes               attributeEnable Value    true               attributeDestination Value   value                attributeResponseStatus Value    Permanent                   Add both attributes to the newly created node              nodeNewKey Attributes Append attributeEnable               nodeNewKey Attributes Append attributeDestination                 nodeNewKey Attributes Append attributeResponseStatus                   Add the node under the              nodeAppSettings AppendChild nodeNewKey               doc Save path                return true                    catch  Exception e                        Console WriteLine   Exception adding redirect   e Message                 return false

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You probably want to look at something like URL Rewrite to rewrite URLs to more user friendly ones rather than using a simple httpRedirect  You could then make a rule like this    lt system webServer gt     lt rewrite gt       lt rules gt         lt rule name  Rewrite to Category  gt           lt match url   Category    0-9a-z-       0-9a-z-       gt           lt action type  Rewrite  url  category aspx cid  R 2     gt         lt  rule gt       lt  rules gt     lt  rewrite gt   lt  system webServer gt

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