How do I create a redirect URL in IIS 7.5 - iis-7.5

Question

I'm new to the world of IIS in terms of redirects and have been tasked with setting up a redirect for a portion of our site.
The URL I need to redirect is brandview.auditedmedia.com and I need it
to go to https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view
The trick is we can have a URL with a QueryString such as
brandview.auditedmedia.com/memberNumber=423524 and that URL should NOT
be redirected.
Also, the scheme of brandview.auditedmedia.com does not matter. Both
HTTP and HTTPS should redirect.
So I'm not sure should I be doing this in IIS or as a RouteMap in the app?
If I should be doing this in IIS can someone point me to either an article or give an example of what I need to do?
Thanks
Bob

Answer 1

You need to add URL rewrite rule on the server level. Use conditions to prevent redirection for requests with non-empty query string string.
For your case it is necessary to add the following rule:
<rule name="brandview redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" ignoreCase="true" negate="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^brandview\.auditedmedia\.com$" negate="false" />
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern=".+" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view" appendQueryString="false" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
There is detailed instruction on your question. Note, the rule must be created in system.webServer/rewrite/globalRules section of %windir%\system32\inetsrv\config\ApplicationHost.config file.

Answer 2

I got the pattern fixed (see below) and though all the pattern matching works properly in URL Rewrite Module (using test button and putting in different URLs), it still isn't working properly when I attempt to go to the site. The server just continues with serving the page and not redirecting.
<rewrite>
<globalRules>
<rule name="brandview redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" ignoreCase="true" negate="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(https?:\/\/)?brandviewdev\.auditedmedia\.com$" negate="false" />
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern=".+" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</globalRules>
</rewrite>

Answer 3

Also you can add URL rewrite rule using GUI. Before you start make sure that both of the direct HTTP-requests to brandview.auditedmedia.com and https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view returns status 200 (OK).
Open IIS Manager by prompting inetmgr command.
Select brandview web site in the Connections pane and open URL Rewriting feature.
Create new empty rule using Add rule(s)... action.
Within the Edit Inbound Rule dialog, enter the following:
Name: Redirect to auditedmedia.com;
Requested URL: Matches the Pattern;
Using: Regular expressions;
Pattern: .*;
Action type: Redirect;
Redirect URL: https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view.
Append query string: false;
Redirect type: See Other (303);
Save the rule by clicking Apply on the Actions pane.
Make sure that request to brandview.auditedmedia.com will be redirected to https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view.
Repeat steps 1, 2 and select Redirect to auditedmedia.com rule.
Execute action Add condition(s)... with following:
Condition input: {QUERY_STRING};
Check if input string: Does Not Matches the Pattern;
Pattern: .+;
Ignore case: true.
Push OK button.
As result, all requests to brandview.auditedmedia.com with empty query string will be redirected to https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view page. After testing you can change redirect type to 301.

Answer 4

After trying different combinations I finally got the redirect to work correctly and to be honest, I'm not sure how. Here is my config
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Brandview Redirect" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^$" ignoreCase="true" negate="false" />
<action type="Redirect" url="https://auditedmedia.com/data/media-intelligence-center/brand-view" appendQueryString="false" redirectType="Temporary" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="brandviewdev\.auditedmedia\.com" />
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern=".+" negate="true" />
</conditions>
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>