Iis – how to use iis 6.0 redirects

iisiis-6redirect

I'm attempting to use the below reference to create a re-direct for my local site with no luck.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/6b855a7a-0884-4508-ba95-079f38c77017.mspx?mfr=true

I want absolute links on my local site that point online to point to my local site instead.

example absolute link
[http://online.com/products]

when I click the local version I'd like it to redirect to:
[http://offline/products]

I want to preserve everything after the domain name and append it to the server (local) name so that when I click a link it will redirect to the local site and not the online version.

I've tried [http://offline$S] but that doesn't append the "suffix" /products the way I thought it should.

What's going on here?

Best Answer

An IIS redirect isn't going to work for you in this case. For those absolute links your offline IIS server is completely out of the picture. If you look in your IIS logs on offline you should see that none of those requests even make it to that server. Your browser will attempt to directly contact online.come itself and send the request there (by way of any proxy servers in the chain). IIS on offline never gets a chance to handle the request and therefore will not fire any redirect. For an IIS redirect to work the initial request must be served by your IIS server.

To make this work you would need to get creative with dns or internal proxy servers.

Correct way in new versions of nginx

Turn out my first answer to this question was correct at certain time, but it turned into another pitfall - to stay up to date please check Taxing rewrite pitfalls

I have been corrected by many SE users, so the credit goes to them, but more importantly, here is the correct code:

server {
       listen         80;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       return         301 https://$server_name$request_uri;
}

server {
       listen         443 ssl;
       server_name    my.domain.com;
       # add Strict-Transport-Security to prevent man in the middle attacks
       add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=31536000" always; 

       [....]
}

Iis – Run 32-bit IIS on 64-bit Server 2008

Given the brief question, I don't know if this is exactly what you want to do, but you can run 32-bit ISAPI extensions (such as PHP, Rewrite, custom extensions, etc) in an AppPool in IIS 7 and 7.5.

For the full rundown, see this article here, the important part being:

...go into your IIS 7 manager console, find the application pool your app is running in, right-click on it, go to Advanced Settings, and change the Enable 32-bit Applications setting to true... Now restart IIS (either via the snap-in or the command line w/net stop w3svc & net start w3svc) and you’re good to go

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NGINX Redirect – How to Rewrite All HTTP Requests to HTTPS While Maintaining Sub-Domain

Correct way in new versions of nginx

Iis – Run 32-bit IIS on 64-bit Server 2008

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