[url] IIS7 URL Redirection from root to sub directory

I am using Windows Server 2008 with IIS7. I need to redirect the users who come to www.mysite.com to wwww.mysite.com/menu_1/MainScreen.aspx. Here is the file structure I have for the projects:

-Sites
 -Default Web Site
  -Menu_1
  -MenuService
  -VscWebService

I will really appreciate any help on this.

You need to download this from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7435.

The tool is called "Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS 7" and is described as follows by Microsoft: "URL Rewrite Module 2.0 provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server and for modifying response content before it gets served to HTTP clients"

I think, this could be done without IIS URL Rewrite module. <httpRedirect> supports wildcards, so you can configure it this way:

  <system.webServer>
    <httpRedirect enabled="true">
      <add wildcard="/" destination="/menu_1/MainScreen.aspx" />
    </httpRedirect>
  </system.webServer>

Note that you need to have the "HTTP Redirection" feature enabled on IIS - see HTTP Redirects

I could not get this working with the accepted answer, mainly because I did not know where to enter that code. I looked everywhere for some explanation of the URL Rewrite tool that made sense, but could not find any. I ended up using the HTTP Redirect tool in IIS.

1. Choose your site
2. Click HTTP Redirect in the IIS section (Make sure the Role Service is installed)
3. Check "Redirect requests to this destination"
4. Enter where you want to redirect. In your case "wwww.mysite.com/menu_1/MainScreen.aspx"
5. In Redirect Behavior, I found I had to check "Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories), or it would go into a loop. See what works for you.

Hope this helps.