IIS7 URL Redirection from root to sub directory

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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

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I think  this could be done without IIS URL Rewrite module   lt httpRedirect gt  supports wildcards  so you can configure it this way      lt system webServer gt       lt httpRedirect enabled  true  gt         lt add wildcard     destination   menu 1 MainScreen aspx    gt       lt  httpRedirect gt     lt  system webServer gt    Note that you need to have the  HTTP Redirection  feature enabled on IIS - see HTTP Redirects

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Here it is  Add this code to your web config file    lt system webServer gt       lt rewrite gt           lt rules gt               lt rule name  Root Hit Redirect  stopProcessing  true  gt                   lt match url        gt                   lt action type  Redirect  url   menu 1 MainScreen aspx    gt               lt  rule gt           lt  rules gt       lt  rewrite gt   lt  system webServer gt    It will do 301 Permanent Redirect  URL will be changed in browser   If you want to have such  redirect  to be invisible  rewrite  internal redirect   then use this rule  the only difference is that  Redirect  has been replaced by  Rewrite      lt system webServer gt       lt rewrite gt           lt rules gt               lt rule name  Root Hit Redirect  stopProcessing  true  gt                   lt match url        gt                   lt action type  Rewrite  url   menu 1 MainScreen aspx    gt               lt  rule gt           lt  rules gt       lt  rewrite gt   lt  system webServer gt

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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    Choose your site Click HTTP Redirect in the IIS section  Make sure the Role Service is installed  Check  Redirect requests to this destination  Enter where you want to redirect  In your case  wwww mysite com menu 1 MainScreen aspx  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

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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

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