I see on page 123 a section on redirections that is of great interest to me however I am unable to get the sample project to work to illustrate this. When a request for "catalog.html" is made, the application should send the user to "catalog.aspx" yet I am directed to the 404 page instead. I downloaded both the ISAPI Rewrite and UrlRewriter.NET applications and am not sure what exactly to do with them.

I really just want the easiest way to forward a user from an .html page to an .aspx page and eliminate the duplicate content issue from coming up. I know I could use the http-equiv but I want to figure out the 301 method for the reasons in the book.

Thanks

have you had any luck figuring that out yet? im just beginning the book myself this week. will post if it works for me.

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Hey guys.

This is weird as I don't remember having this issue when I worked through the book. I will take a look at my source files when I get home tonight and hopefully have an answer for you.

Thanks!
-Doug

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Ok. I am assuming here, but I think this is why you can't get this to work.

In the intro chapter Christian and Jamie have you configure IIS and your hosts file so that you access the site through http://seoasp/

What I imagine you are doing is accessing the site through VWD so that you have a url that looks like http://localhost:xxxx/<mysite>/ and I imagine that you have your rewrite rule something like:

<rewrite url="^/catalog.html$" to="/catalog.aspx" processing="stop"/>

The problem with this rule is that urlRewriter is waiting for this url: http://mysite/catalog.htm but if you ahve accessed the site from VWD the url you are actually going to is: http://localhost:xxxx/<mysite>/catalog.html

A simple adjustment to your rewrite rule will clear this up:
<rewrite url="^/<yoursite>/catalog.html$" to="/<yoursite>/catalog.aspx" processing="stop"/>

The above sample worked on my dev box with a url of http://localhost:5485/seoasp/catalog.html

The reason I did not catch this problem when I was editing the book is because I had configured the site to run as Jamie and Christian had instructed. Nevertheless this should clear up your problem!

hth.
-Doug

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