URL Rewrite 1.1 within VisualStudio 2008

Question

Hi all,

I have changed one of my apps to use URL Rewrite 1.1 in IIS7.5 which works great (as some of you my have seen from previous posts) but I have an issue that this doesnt work when developing as Visual Studio Webserver doesnt seem to support it.

Is there a way to get it work so we can actually debug it, rather than writing a completely different url mapping section for when we are developing?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I think the only way to do this, is set it up on your local IIS to run the site (Pointing the home-directory at the source files)

Then use the menu "Debug" > "Attach to Process" option.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/c6wf8e4z.aspx

Off the top of my head: the process is "w3wp.exe" in iis7

This will then allow you to debug the app via IIS (Which has the URL Re-Writing support)

Answer 2

Wow great timing for the question. I just happened across it while browsing today. But I just released support for URL Rewrite syntax in my URL Rewriter 3.5 yesterday.

http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=36792

URL Rewriter 3.5 is able to run in the Visual Studio Webserver. It supports Apache mod_rewrite and MS URL Rewrite config. The MS URL Rewrite is still in it's preliminary stages, but I would be happy to work with you to get this working.