Hello,

 I have an application that has URL rewritting module used in it. When i configure the application as a virtual directory the application works as expected but as soon as i configure it as a website in IIS the URL rewriting starts throwing error.

 My rule looks something like this:

<rule source="Menu/(\w+)" destination="Menu\.aspx?category=$2"/> 

Thanks in advance.

 Is it a 404 error?

You might have to setup wildcard mapping on IIS?

I think Harry is right. When you are using the web.dev server all requests are routed through the asp.net engine. This is not the case in IIS, you have to explicitly map each extension type to the correct filter or setup wildcard mapping, where all requests are routed through IIS. I wrote a Blog a while back on how to do this:

http://professionalaspnet.com/archive/2007/07/27/Configure-IIS-for-Wildcard-Extensions-in-ASP.NET.aspx

 heh, I have had your blog open in all day today Christ for a bit of on again off again reading while I was coding!

I was in a bit of a rush earlier but the two links I usually give out are (got them tagged in my delicious):

• Your link and
• http://blog.codeville.net/2008/07/04/options-for-deploying-aspnet-mvc-to-iis-6/
  

Hello,

Thanks for the link its very informative. Sorry for responding so late.

But still i couldn't get to cause that why would the code not work if its a website in root and works fine if its a virtual directory. Well I had the  wildcard mapping in IIS done for both the cases.

What is the internal structure thats making the difference in the implementation.

Hey,

If you are not getting 404 error, then certainly you need to look into the code.

May be 'Url segment count is wrong', this is common coding issue regarding Url Rewriting.

It occurs mostly after deployment, it is caused by Url string.

Hope this will help you.