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11/15/2007 5:28 PM

Spence Hackney

www.proclaiminteractive.com
Joined: 9/27/2003

Posts: 100

Vanity URLs

I am trying to setup Vanity URLs (aka www.mysite.com/youth) via Friendly URLs and can't quite get it to work. Here is what I am using in my SiteUrls.config:

    <RewriterRule>
      <LookFor>.*mysite.com/youth(.*)\Default.aspx</LookFor>
      <SendTo>~/Default.aspx?TabId=69</SendTo>
    </RewriterRule>

Any idea why this isn't working?

11/15/2007 6:49 PM

Rafe Kemmis

www.kemmis.info/blog/
Joined: 1/11/2007

Posts: 78

Re: Vanity URLs

This is a long shot, but have you put a / rather than a \ before Default.aspx?

11/16/2007 5:15 PM

Spence Hackney

www.proclaiminteractive.com
Joined: 9/27/2003

Posts: 100

Re: Vanity URLs

Thanks for the reply. I just tried it with the forward slash before Default.aspx. Now I have this:

<RewriterRule>
<LookFor>.*mysite.com/youth(.*)/Default.aspx</LookFor>
<SendTo>~/Default.aspx?TabId=69</SendTo>
</RewriterRule>

However, still no dice. for clarification www.mysite.com/youth doesn't work and www.myseite.com/youth/default.aspx does. Ideas?

11/16/2007 5:20 PM

Rafe Kemmis

www.kemmis.info/blog/
Joined: 1/11/2007

Posts: 78

Re: Vanity URLs

Make sure there are no rules listed before your rule that might pickup that url that you are trying to match.

11/17/2007 8:48 AM

Sebastian Leupold

www.dnnwerk.de
Joined: 3/8/2004

Posts: 46212

Re: Vanity URLs

you cannot virtualize folders without modifications on IIS setup, you might be able to use www.mysite.com/youth.aspx as an alias and redirect. Also try the human friendly urls rewriter of DNN 4.7.0 (Stefan blogged about)

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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