url-rewriting

asp.net 3.5 url rewriting / routing for multilingual websites

Hello, I'd like to implement the asp.net 3.5 url routing functionality to take in links like www.mysite.com/fr/blah/page1.aspx www.mysite.com/en/blah/page1.aspx and redirect them to the same page. I've read through and tried the approach in the following tutorial: http://aspnet.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/051309-1.aspx. However this t...

.htaccess - redirect anchor link

I want: http://www.example.com/#test to be redirected to http://www.example.com/test With .htaccess, is that possible? How? ...

URL Encoding being lost before processing - ASP.net

I am building a web-store that uses URL encoding extensively. I have a list of Departments & Categories in my database which I use to generate the links. These are, of course, URL encoded before they are sent. Some Typical Links are... /MySite/Store/Countertop+Equipment/Can+Openers.aspx /MySite/Store/Dinnerware.aspx ...

Regex and Yahoo Pipes: How to replace end of url

Here's the Pipe though you may not need it to answer the question: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?%5Fid=85a288a1517e615b765df9603fd604bd I am trying to modify all url's as so: http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2009/08/12/mlbf_6073553_th_3.jpg with http://mediadownloads.mlb.com/mlbam/2009/08/12/mlbtv_6073553_1m.mp4 The synta...

Rails default_url_options for actioncontroller to auto format all urls/paths with .html

One of our requirements was that all our url's ended with .html We've overridden the default_url_options method to add the format to the options def default_url_options(options={}) options.merge(:format => 'html') end This works great in the most part... but it causes issue with the following routes: map.home '/', :controller => 'h...

Rewrite URLs to not include file extensions

Here's a recurring problem. There are similar questions on SO about this, but nothing quite answers my question. I've got a website and I want every page to be available at only one URL. It should work dynamically on all pages, not on a sinlge hard-coded filename. domain.tld/foo should redirect to domain.tld/foo/ domain.tld/foo.php sh...

Pushing/Migrating your local Drupal site to a live-site.

I have installed drupal on my localmachine(ubuntu, Xampp), at localhost. Path and Pathauto modules are active (a module to produce friendly URLs). Migrating/Pushing my local install to the www.mysite.com Exported SQL from phpMyadmin(localhost). Made a new DB at live site (I think a different name from the localhost-DB does not cre...

ASP.Net URL Encoding

I am implementing URL rewriting in ASP.net and my URLs are causing me a world of problems. The URL is generated from a database of departments & categories. I want employees to be able to add items to the database with whatever special characters are appropriate without it breaking the site. I am encoding the data before I construct t...

How to Redirect to a url containing an anchor (#)?

I need to take standard incoming urls and rewrite redirect them to target specific anchors on a single page (incoming html page name becomes the anchor name). E.g., the rule would be like this: RewriteRule ^files/([a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)\.html$ /test.html#$1 [R] So this url: http://foo.com/files/bar.html ...would become: http://foo.com/...

Does redirecting a web service URL have any effect on the web service?

Let's say a client gave me this URL to access a webservice to GetQuotes: http://www.somecompany.com/services/myservice.asmx If I tried to access the web service and I get redirected to: http://new.location.somecompany.com/theservice.asmx Will this affect the ASP.NET client calling this web service? Where both service URLs have the e...

How do I go about abstracting URLs?

URL abstraction: www.domain.com/perl.pl to www.domain.com/perl I am reading MIT's Software Engineering for Internet Applications (specifically, http://philip.greenspun.com/seia/basics ) and the author, Philip Greenspun, mentions URL abstraction but doesn't seem to go into any of the details of actually implementing it. I'm running Debi...

Problem with URL rewrite of host-header.

I'm trying to use ManagedFusion UrlRewriter module on my main/root web site to redirect requests with a certain host name to a sub-folder of the root. Let's say my root is called profkroot.com, and it has a sub-folder (ASP.NET application) called cottages. I also have a domain called profkcottages.com, which I'm trying to redirect to p...

Configure UrlReplacer to only work for specific IP addresses

I'm using a utility called UrlReplacer to enable the configuration of friendly Urls for a website I'm working on. The website is developed in Asp.Net 3.5 and uses Immediacy CMS. We need to allow the client to manage their own friendly URLs. Is there any way that UrlReplacer can be set up so that the configuration page is only visible t...

URL Rewrite to exclude existing directories

I'm trying to redirect URLs from example.net/customname or example.net/customname/ to example.net/my/home.php?username=customname . This in itself is not complicated: RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)$ my/home.php?username=$1 RewriteRule ^([a-zA-Z0-9_-]+)/$ my/home.php?username=$1 However, I want to exclude my existing directories and fi...

URL Rewriting with UrlRewriter.Net, ASP.NET MVC Routing or What Do You Recommend?

I'm just wondering, if you are creating a new ASP.NET web forms app in ASP.NET 3.5, which would you recommend for URL rewriting? UrlRewriter.NET or ASP.NET MVC Routing. I've used UrlRewriter.NET before and was pretty happy with it. Opinions anyone? ...

Obtaining a referring short URL using a widget.

Hi, I'd like to create a client-side javascript widget on a blog that obtains the shortened URL from which a visitor used to come to the blog. While the widget can get the Referrer, such would only be the referring page URL, not the shortened URL that was placed on the site that had to be clicked. I know shortener sites use either 301 or...

Passing a hex color to an ASP.NET page using ULR Parameter

I am trying to allow a user to specify a background color for my asp.net website. So I want to pass the page color into my url like: UserDetails.aspx?Color=#FFFFFF However as soon as I include the # character I can't seem to be able to get the correct value for the parameter Color using: color = System.Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHt...

URL Re-Writing in ASP.Net

I want to implemewnt URL-Rewriting in way that user can access website with username.domain.com e.g. www.abc.com/login.aspx I should be able to access this like www.username.abc.com/login.aspx blogspot is also one of the example like http://username.blogspot.com/ Plz suggest me how can I accomplish this. Thanks ...

Passing Non Existing Directory As a parameter in IIS or Apache

First look at this url: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/xoxoxo/ This directory does not exists but somehow stackoverflow can pass that last directory as a parameter to his base script. Is this possible to configure IIS or Apache to do so? How? ...

Does URL design affect page rank in search engine results?

I am especially interested in Google search results. Some web-sites use category IDs in their URLs while others use a more contemporary method of "friendly urls". I.e: Old URLs: mywebsite.com/23151/32/ New URLs: mywebsite.com/my-category/my-page If the new method is used, is the page's rank going to increase? (provided that all other ...