IIS7: URL Rewrite not working when debugging with Visual Studio

Question

Hi,

I have set up some User Friendly URL rules in IIS7 using the URL Rewrite module. This works perfectly on IIS7.

However, when I try to debug the site, the webserver instance that Visual Studio creates doesn't seem to obey the rewrite rules.

For example,

http://localhost/friendly-url

works on IIS7, but

http://localhost:1800/friendly-url

returns a 404 error when debugging with Visual Studio 2008. Since the rewrite rules are present in web.config, I would have expected Visual Studio to obey them?

Wild Thing

Answer 1

Cassini doesn't do URL rewriting. You might want to look at the recently announced IIS Express version which will.

Quoting from the linked article:

The downside with the ASP.NET Developer Server, though, is that it does not support a full set of web-server features. For example, it doesn’t support SSL, URL Rewriting Rules (like the SEO URL Rewrite Rules I blogged about here), Custom Security Settings, and other richer features now offered with IIS 7.