IIS 7 URL Rewrite difficulties - iis

To configure an IIS rewrite rule to redirect traffic to my site to a different URL.
Basically I am trying to redirect this url: www.sharepointalex.co.uk to www.sharepointalex.co.uk/blog. At the moment it is pointing at the root of my site (a wedding website I setup for my partner and I).
www.sharepointalex.co.uk is a domain pointer on WinHost.
The rule I have so far is:
<rules>
<rule name="Blog" patternSyntax="ExactMatch" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="www.sharepointalex.co.uk" />
<action type="Redirect" url="{R:0}/blog" redirectType="Temporary" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="www.sharepointalex.co.uk" />
</conditions>
</rule>
</rules>
However this doesnt seem to work.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers

The match URL should not include the host name.

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URL Rewrite giving 404

I have subdomain with an A record to my IIS Server:
sub.domain.com
The IIS server has a binding for sub.domain.com and a cert for *.domain.com
What we need is when someone goes to sub.domain.com it takes them to another site but masks the URL and keeps the SSL. The destination page has in its SAN cert sub.domain.com.
Tried a forward on Godaddy which works but it doesn't keep the SSL and we get cert issues. So thought was to point to our server to pass SSL and then redirect it. I tried a URL Rewrite but it's giving a 404.
URL Rewrite:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="Pay Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?sub\.domain\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.domain2.com/cgsdesktop/PaymentLanding/UniversalPortal" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
I just need to know how to get this done.
How about this:
<rules>
<rule name="Pay Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^sub.domain.com$" ignoreCase="true"/>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.sub.domain.com$" ignoreCase="true"/>
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.domain2.com/cgsdesktop/PaymentLanding/UniversalPortal" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
use sub.domain.com instead of sub\.domain\.com.
This article contains some useful recipes on IIS redirect/rewrite rules.
In order to mask the URL and keep the SSL in the browser bar, we need to create URL Rewrite action rules of URL Rewrite extension.
However, URL Rewrite action only supports to redirect the request to the same domain by default. We have to install the Application Request Routing extension when redirecting the request to another website.
https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/application-request-routing
or we will get an Http 404 error.
See my preceding post for more details.
ASP.net URL Rewrite subdirectory to external URL
Feel free to let me know if there is anything I can help with.

IIS Url Rewrite to another server

I have an old url www.mydomain.com/customer/1. I changed that server to ww2 and it displays fine at ww2.mydomain.com/customer/1. On my new IIS 8.5 www server how can I put in a rewrite rule so if the user goes to www.mydomain.com/customer/1 they will redirect to ww2.mydomain.com/customer/1. I have tried numerous patterns in the Url Rewrite 2.0 module and nothing seems to work. All other www requests I do not want redirected, those stay on my new www server.
I you want to redirect a single path, /customer/1, then you should add this to Web.config on the www.mydomain.com server:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Redirect 'www.mydomain.com/customer/1' to 'ww2.mydomain.com/customer/1'" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^customer/1$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.mydomain\.com$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://ww2.mydomain.com{REQUEST_URI}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
If you wish to include additional paths, you can fiddle with the RegEx specified in the <match url="^customer/1$" /> tag.

Rewrite to Subdomain from Domain Pointer

I have a domain (www.example.com) with a subdomain (test.example.com)
I also have a domain pointer (www.pointer.com) pointing to www.example.com
What I would like to do is have anybody who types in www.pointer.com in the browser view test.example.com
<rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1" patternSyntax="Wildcard" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="www.pointer.com" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="test.example.com" />
</rule>
</rules>
but that just sends me to a HTTP Error 404.0 - Not Found page
Is there any way to pull this off?
This is running on IIS (windows) with php
You will need to change the action type to Redirect. A rewrite will only invoke a different resource on the server but will not change the URL in the browser. Other than that your rule looks good to me.

URL Alias in IIS 8.5 Using URL Rewrite Module

I need to create easy to remember URL's that redirect to long and hard to remember paths for a large number of applications.
i.e.
subdomain.domain.edu/shortname
redirects to
https://www.subdomain.domain.edu/mainApplication/subfolder/page
I'm using the URL Rewrite module in IIS 8.5, but I keep getting a 404 when I browse to the short alias. I know the rewrite module is working as I use it to handle rewriting HTTP to HTTPS and to add WWW to a URL.
My rewrite rule looks like:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Easy to remember shortcut" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*subdomain.domain.edu/shortname" />
<conditions>
<add input="{URL}" pattern=".*/shortname" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.subdomain.domain.edu/mainApplication/subfolder/page.aspx" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
Of course this returns a 404. Any ideas?
Forgive me if there is already an answer to this in another post, however, I've read through and tried over 30 posts on the URL rewrite module and have not yet found the solution for actually creating an alias.
Url rewrite match condition won't be able to see your domain i.e. if the URL is https://www.subdomain.domain.edu/shortname the match part can only see shortname (anything after domainname/).
To validate the host we need to add in the conditions clause. So your rule will be something like below
<rule name="shortnameURL" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="shortname" />
<action type="Redirect" url="mainApplication/subfolder/page" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern=".*subdomain.domain.edu" />
</conditions>
</rule>
Also it should be ok if you add the entire URL here
<action type="Redirect" url="mainApplication/subfolder/page" /> as below
<action type="Redirect" url="https://www.subdomain.domain.edu/mainApplication/subfolder/page" />

IIS URL Redirect failing

I need to redirect URLs of the form:
http://server1.name.here/path1/path2/?num=123456
to:
http://server2.name.here/path3/path2/?num=123456
using the IIS URL Rewrite Module 2.0 on IIS 8.5. I've used a DNS alias to handle the server name redirection.
I've been using the user interface to configure the path rewrite but despite trying several variations and extensive research I cannot get my rewrite to work, which is slightly embarrassing as I feel this should be a simple rewrite. The web.config produced by the URL rewite user interface is:
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="path rewrite" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="false">
<match url="path1/path2/" ignoreCase="true" />
<conditions>
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="num=[0-9]+" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="path3/path2/" appendQueryString="true" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
When I try to open server1.name.here/path1/path2/?num=123456 I get a "403 - Forbidden: Access is denied." and the logs show no evidence that my URL is being rewritten or even flagged by the rewrite rule.
I'm sure I'm missing something obvious, can anyone enlighten me as to what I've got wrong?
Many Thanks Eden

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