Redirect a list of URLs in Web.Config
I have a list of URLs, some of which are offsite, for a site platform transition. I have a one:one mapping of these in a spreadsheet, and need to do a 301 redirect from old URL to new URL.
e.g.
/foo (living on https://oldsite.com) to https://newsite.com/some_promo
After an hour of googling, I've found some lots of ways to do fancy, eloquent things in web.config, but all I really need is a hammer and am happy to brute force the thing.
What's the best way to simply issue 301 redirects from URL1 to URL2 from a list of ~200 URLs?
iis web-config url-redirection
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
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I have a list of URLs, some of which are offsite, for a site platform transition. I have a one:one mapping of these in a spreadsheet, and need to do a 301 redirect from old URL to new URL.
e.g.
/foo (living on https://oldsite.com) to https://newsite.com/some_promo
After an hour of googling, I've found some lots of ways to do fancy, eloquent things in web.config, but all I really need is a hammer and am happy to brute force the thing.
What's the best way to simply issue 301 redirects from URL1 to URL2 from a list of ~200 URLs?
iis web-config url-redirection
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
Write a script to convert your spreadsheet to a rewrite map docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/… and then IIS URL Rewrite module can be used.
– Lex Li
Nov 13 '18 at 13:27
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I have a list of URLs, some of which are offsite, for a site platform transition. I have a one:one mapping of these in a spreadsheet, and need to do a 301 redirect from old URL to new URL.
e.g.
/foo (living on https://oldsite.com) to https://newsite.com/some_promo
After an hour of googling, I've found some lots of ways to do fancy, eloquent things in web.config, but all I really need is a hammer and am happy to brute force the thing.
What's the best way to simply issue 301 redirects from URL1 to URL2 from a list of ~200 URLs?
iis web-config url-redirection
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
I have a list of URLs, some of which are offsite, for a site platform transition. I have a one:one mapping of these in a spreadsheet, and need to do a 301 redirect from old URL to new URL.
e.g.
/foo (living on https://oldsite.com) to https://newsite.com/some_promo
After an hour of googling, I've found some lots of ways to do fancy, eloquent things in web.config, but all I really need is a hammer and am happy to brute force the thing.
What's the best way to simply issue 301 redirects from URL1 to URL2 from a list of ~200 URLs?
iis web-config url-redirection
iis web-config url-redirection
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
asked Nov 13 '18 at 6:09
John GreenJohn Green
11.2k21948
11.2k21948
Write a script to convert your spreadsheet to a rewrite map docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/… and then IIS URL Rewrite module can be used.
– Lex Li
Nov 13 '18 at 13:27
add a comment |
Write a script to convert your spreadsheet to a rewrite map docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/… and then IIS URL Rewrite module can be used.
– Lex Li
Nov 13 '18 at 13:27
Write a script to convert your spreadsheet to a rewrite map docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/… and then IIS URL Rewrite module can be used.
– Lex Li
Nov 13 '18 at 13:27
Write a script to convert your spreadsheet to a rewrite map docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/… and then IIS URL Rewrite module can be used.
– Lex Li
Nov 13 '18 at 13:27
add a comment |
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I dunno about "best" way, this is certainly "a way"...
Assuming you have a spreadsheet with 2 columns - column 'A' contains hte old url as a relative path, column 'B' contains the fully qualified destination url - you should be able to use the spreadsheets concatenation function (ive done this for nginx rewrites, but it should work for IIS) to assemble the redirects, then copy and paste them into the web.config.
Start with a simple rewrite
<rule name="Redirect 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/source.html" />
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/destination.html" />
</rule>
(you will need to "flatten" it into a single line first)
Split the rule into 4 parts <rule name="Redirect, " stopProcessing...url=", " />...url=" and finally " /></rule> (ie leave space to number the rule, and remove the source and destination urls), and paste these 4 fragments into cells E1, F1, G1 and H1 in the sheet. In Column 'C' enter numbers 1..200 (rules need unique names), then in Column 'D', (in Excel at least) enter
=CONCAT(E$1,C1,F$1,A1,G$1,B1,H$1)
(E$1 .. H$1 are the 4 cells that contain the fragments - the $ is to stop Excel from incrementing the rows).
Copy that formula down the page - volia
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
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I dunno about "best" way, this is certainly "a way"...
Assuming you have a spreadsheet with 2 columns - column 'A' contains hte old url as a relative path, column 'B' contains the fully qualified destination url - you should be able to use the spreadsheets concatenation function (ive done this for nginx rewrites, but it should work for IIS) to assemble the redirects, then copy and paste them into the web.config.
Start with a simple rewrite
<rule name="Redirect 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/source.html" />
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/destination.html" />
</rule>
(you will need to "flatten" it into a single line first)
Split the rule into 4 parts <rule name="Redirect, " stopProcessing...url=", " />...url=" and finally " /></rule> (ie leave space to number the rule, and remove the source and destination urls), and paste these 4 fragments into cells E1, F1, G1 and H1 in the sheet. In Column 'C' enter numbers 1..200 (rules need unique names), then in Column 'D', (in Excel at least) enter
=CONCAT(E$1,C1,F$1,A1,G$1,B1,H$1)
(E$1 .. H$1 are the 4 cells that contain the fragments - the $ is to stop Excel from incrementing the rows).
Copy that formula down the page - volia
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
add a comment |
I dunno about "best" way, this is certainly "a way"...
Assuming you have a spreadsheet with 2 columns - column 'A' contains hte old url as a relative path, column 'B' contains the fully qualified destination url - you should be able to use the spreadsheets concatenation function (ive done this for nginx rewrites, but it should work for IIS) to assemble the redirects, then copy and paste them into the web.config.
Start with a simple rewrite
<rule name="Redirect 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/source.html" />
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/destination.html" />
</rule>
(you will need to "flatten" it into a single line first)
Split the rule into 4 parts <rule name="Redirect, " stopProcessing...url=", " />...url=" and finally " /></rule> (ie leave space to number the rule, and remove the source and destination urls), and paste these 4 fragments into cells E1, F1, G1 and H1 in the sheet. In Column 'C' enter numbers 1..200 (rules need unique names), then in Column 'D', (in Excel at least) enter
=CONCAT(E$1,C1,F$1,A1,G$1,B1,H$1)
(E$1 .. H$1 are the 4 cells that contain the fragments - the $ is to stop Excel from incrementing the rows).
Copy that formula down the page - volia
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
add a comment |
I dunno about "best" way, this is certainly "a way"...
Assuming you have a spreadsheet with 2 columns - column 'A' contains hte old url as a relative path, column 'B' contains the fully qualified destination url - you should be able to use the spreadsheets concatenation function (ive done this for nginx rewrites, but it should work for IIS) to assemble the redirects, then copy and paste them into the web.config.
Start with a simple rewrite
<rule name="Redirect 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/source.html" />
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/destination.html" />
</rule>
(you will need to "flatten" it into a single line first)
Split the rule into 4 parts <rule name="Redirect, " stopProcessing...url=", " />...url=" and finally " /></rule> (ie leave space to number the rule, and remove the source and destination urls), and paste these 4 fragments into cells E1, F1, G1 and H1 in the sheet. In Column 'C' enter numbers 1..200 (rules need unique names), then in Column 'D', (in Excel at least) enter
=CONCAT(E$1,C1,F$1,A1,G$1,B1,H$1)
(E$1 .. H$1 are the 4 cells that contain the fragments - the $ is to stop Excel from incrementing the rows).
Copy that formula down the page - volia
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
I dunno about "best" way, this is certainly "a way"...
Assuming you have a spreadsheet with 2 columns - column 'A' contains hte old url as a relative path, column 'B' contains the fully qualified destination url - you should be able to use the spreadsheets concatenation function (ive done this for nginx rewrites, but it should work for IIS) to assemble the redirects, then copy and paste them into the web.config.
Start with a simple rewrite
<rule name="Redirect 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/source.html" />
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/destination.html" />
</rule>
(you will need to "flatten" it into a single line first)
Split the rule into 4 parts <rule name="Redirect, " stopProcessing...url=", " />...url=" and finally " /></rule> (ie leave space to number the rule, and remove the source and destination urls), and paste these 4 fragments into cells E1, F1, G1 and H1 in the sheet. In Column 'C' enter numbers 1..200 (rules need unique names), then in Column 'D', (in Excel at least) enter
=CONCAT(E$1,C1,F$1,A1,G$1,B1,H$1)
(E$1 .. H$1 are the 4 cells that contain the fragments - the $ is to stop Excel from incrementing the rows).
Copy that formula down the page - volia
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
answered Nov 14 '18 at 22:37
MisterSmithMisterSmith
948611
948611
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
add a comment |
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
Thanks. Not so much worried about the spreadsheet part -- more about the right way to create the redirects. So far, it looks like individual rules as you show above or a rewriteMap that gets pulled into a redirect rule. I was able to cobble together what appears to be the appropriate structure for a rewriteMap. I think my main problem is that I have found the documentation does not really address this simple case very well / or in a straightforward manner, especially for somebody who doesn't typically work with IIS, which is why Google wasn't helping me much.
– John Green
Nov 14 '18 at 23:54
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Write a script to convert your spreadsheet to a rewrite map docs.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/… and then IIS URL Rewrite module can be used.
– Lex Li
Nov 13 '18 at 13:27