Can Intelligencia.UrlRewriter be made to work in IIS7?

Question

We've inherited an application that uses the Intelligencia.UrlRewriter module. Our environment though is IIS7. We've already set our site to run in the classic asp.net application pool (which aparantly works for a lot of these kinds of problems). However we're still not seeing the URLs in our app be rewritten.

Has anyone run into this?

Answer 1

Yes I had the exact same problem with Intelligencia.UrlRewriter module, running under Win Vista & IIS7, however switching to the classic asp.net app pool did fix the problem. Are you running the app in a new virtual directory? That can sometimes mess with the root path to the application which could make a difference to the rules in the web.config

Answer 2

You need to define the config on the system.webServer element, like:

    <system.webServer>
         <validation validateIntegratedModeConfiguration="false" />
     <modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
  <add name="UrlRewriter" 
   type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" />
     </modules>
    </system.webServer>

You can keep both config. What you probably have now is:

<httpModules>
      <add name="UrlRewriter" type="Intelligencia.UrlRewriter.RewriterHttpModule, Intelligencia.UrlRewriter" />
     </httpModules>

Check the section "Migrating ASP.NET Applications to IIS 7.0 Integrated mod" on http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/243/aspnet-integration-with-iis7/

ps. I have been using it with no trouble at all, as long as that config is in.

Update 1: Also check http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/02/26/tip-trick-url-rewriting-with-asp-net.aspx, particularly "Approach 3: Using an HttpModule to Perform Extension-Less URL Rewriting with IIS7", since the config I added has the extension-less config.

Answer 3

I think IIS7 doesn't like the url(ex: gallery/view/1 ) being extensionless. Can regex fix this?

Here's current:

Answer 4

I have spotted the same problem, after few tries I found out that changing asp mode to integrated pipeline helped.