IIS 7 URL Rewrite doesn't work if the url has a question mark in it

Question

Hi,

im using the url rewrite feature of iis7

Im trying redirect a url like this

xxx.com/?parameter=abc to a url like this xxx.com/somedirectory

the url redirect works well if the source url doesn't contain a question mark in it.

pls help

-Vivek

Answer 1

IIS7 redirects don't by default match query strings in the pattern so you have to add a condition as well as the pattern with {QUERY_STRING} matches the pattern parameter=abc