Changing IIS URL Rewrite config location

Question

Hi

When used at site level, the IIS7 URL Rewrite 2 module saves its configuration in the web.config file of that site. I'm using Sitecore CMS, and best practice is to store any web.config customisations in a separate config file for ease of upgrading, staging/production setups etc.

Is there any way to specify a different config file for IIS7 redirects?

I know that application-level rewrites are stored in ApplicationHost.config, but I have several sites running on the server and would like to keep them separated.

Thanks, Adam

Answer 1

In order to support this best practice you've mentioned, Sitecore implements pluggable configs, but only for the elements inside <sitecore> section of web.config. So, unless IIS7 URL rewrite provides some way to move its stuff to a separate config (like ASP.NET does for connectionstrings.config), I'm afraid you'll have to keep it in the main web.config file.

Sorry if I'm saying obvious things.

Answer 2

I'm not familiar with the url rewriting config, but I have an example of moving the url mapping to a separate file:

<urlMappings configSource="config\urlMappings.config"></urlMappings>

And that file looks like the following:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<urlMappings enabled="true">
    <add url="~/somedealer" mappedUrl="/?theme=4" />
    <add url="~/someotherclient" mappedUrl="/?theme=12" />
</urlMappings>

I'm sure the url rewriting works the same way.