I have read the top 30 Google hits for several combinations of IIS rewrite map condition
and so on, but I can't find any decent documentation, either on a microsoft.com site or elsewhere.
I have a bunch of rewrite maps in IIS7 that I would like to process irrespective of whether or not they are followed by a trailing slash. So www.foo.com/bar
and www.foo.com/bar/
should both match the rule.
<rewrite>
<rewriteMaps>
<rewriteMap name="ShortURLs">
<add key="/terms" value="/en-us/terms-and-conditions/"/>
<add key="/privacy" value="/en-us/privacy-and-cookies/"/>
<add key="/buy" value="/en-us/where-to-buy/"/>
</rewriteMap>
</rewriteMaps>
<rules>
<rule name="Short URL redirects">
<match url="^/?(.+)/?$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{ShortURLs:{REQUEST_URI}}" pattern="(.+)"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}" appendQueryString="true"/>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Now this works perfectly well, except that the only way I can find to make /terms/
match the first key in the rewrite map is to duplicate the map, so that it reads:
<rewriteMap name="ShortURLs">
<add key="/terms" value="/en-us/terms-and-conditions/"/>
<add key="/privacy" value="/en-us/privacy-and-cookies/"/>
<add key="/buy" value="/en-us/where-to-buy/"/>
<add key="/terms/" value="/en-us/terms-and-conditions/"/>
<add key="/privacy/" value="/en-us/privacy-and-cookies/"/>
<add key="/buy/" value="/en-us/where-to-buy/"/>
</rewriteMap>
This seems ridiculously inelegant, given that I'm using regular expressions to match them in the first place. Adding /?
to the condition input or the condition pattern doesn't seem to work.
I have seen the answer to IIS7 Rewrite Map Regex? that mentions regular expressions cannot be used (quoting from Using Rewrite Maps in URL Rewrite Module) but, as I have commented there, this seems to relate to the specific examples being given before that text, rather than a wholesale "this can never work".
What am I missing? There must be some means of doing this; am I missing something obvious?