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  iworkonline

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  URL rewriting practice on local machine

  Jan 09, 2014 01:13 PM|iworkonline|LINK

  Hi 

  I am trying to practive URL rewrting and I came across few post that helped me out a lot but I am stuck on how to check it on machine before deploying me website to my hosting providder.

  Here is what I want to do, user will type username.mydomain.com and it should rewrite as mydomain.com/id=username 

  Saw a post on Stackoverflow and another post which is in asp.net. I modified the code as below to fit my needs

  <rewrite>
          <rules>
            <rule name="RewriteDomain" stopProcessing="true">
              <match url="*" />
              <conditions>
                <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^.mydomain.com" />
              </conditions>
              <action type="Rewrite" url="http://www.mydomain.com/?id={R:0}" />
            </rule>
          </rules>
  </rewrite>

  as I am running on my local machine, what will be domain, is it going to be localhost(portnumber) and I will type user,localhost(portnumber)

  Thanks for your help.

   

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  Pengzhen Son...

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  Re: URL rewriting practice on local machine

  Jan 13, 2014 07:09 AM|Pengzhen Song - MSFT|LINK

  HI,

  If you want to access the website with hostName, you should configure your DNS server to add a record like this below

  127.0.0.1       YOur Domain

  Just for test, you can edit local DNS file %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts . And then you should bind the host name to your website. For more information, you can refer here

  http://www.orcsweb.com/blog/mark-newnam/how-to-set-up-site-bindings-in-internet-information-services-iis/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

  And then we can test if the rule works.

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