Setting up redirect in web.config file

Question

I'm trying to redirect some unfriendly urls with more descriptive ones. These urls end in .aspx?cid=3916 with the last digits being different for each category name page. I want it to instead redirect to Category/CategoryName/3916. I tried this in the web.config file:

<location path="Category.aspx?cid=3916">
<system.webServer>
  <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://www.site.com/Category/CategoryName/3916" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
</system.webServer>

but since it didn't end with just the extension, it didn't work. Is there an easy way to get this to work? I'm using IIS 7.5.

Answer 1

1. Open web.config in the directory where the old pages reside

2. Then add code for the old location path and new destination as follows:

   <configuration>
     <location path="services.htm">
       <system.webServer>
         <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://domain.com/services" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
       </system.webServer>
     </location>
     <location path="products.htm">
       <system.webServer>
         <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="http://domain.com/products" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
       </system.webServer>
     </location>
   </configuration>
   

You may add as many location paths as necessary.