Serve extensionless URL

Question

User-711996264 posted

 I am trying to have profile pages on a website which are dynamic pages. The url needs to be mydomainname.com/username format and this take them to profiles.aspx?username where i can show the information for that user. The url needs to remain as mydomainname.com/username for search engines and to look more professional. I have looked at using application_begeinrequest in global file, but i cant seem to get this to work properly. I am also open for a better way to do the same. Any ideas or help you can offer me, i need to get this working fast as possible and would really appreciate some help.

Answer 1

User1187105292 posted

 

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Answer 2

User1187105292 posted

 

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Answer 3

User-1472285584 posted

 I thought this wasn't possible with IIS 6, only IIS 7... but a quick search gave me this article as a workaround:

 

http://msmvps.com/blogs/omar/archive/2007/04/29/serve-extensionless-url-from-asp-net-without-using-isapi-module-or-iis-6-wildcard-mapping.aspx

Answer 4

User-711996264 posted

Yea i found that article and the idea works, but when i use this line Request.Url.Query.ToString() it gives me the actual 404.aspx url instead of the requested url. In the immediate window it shows the actual request but when i use it like this string reqUrl = Request.Url.Query.ToString() regUrl always holds the 404.aspx page. I cant figure out why its doing this. If i could get the actual request url i can make this work.

Answer 5

User-711996264 posted

Any idea why it does this? 

Answer 6

User-1472285584 posted

 Hmmm, what about the Request.UrlReferrer ? Maybe that one holds the original request?

Answer 7

User-627724879 posted

http://professionalaspnet.com/archive/2007/09/03/Create-an-HttpModule-to-Process-Wildcard-Extension-Mapping-in-ASP.NET.aspx

Answer 8

User-711996264 posted

 I have it working on the local server using this.

    protected void Application_BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {

        // HTTP 404 redirection for extensionless URL or some missing file

        string currentPath;
        string customPath;

        currentPath = Request.Path.ToLower();
        if (System.IO.Path.GetExtension(currentPath) == "")
        {
            // the request is within the /CONTENT/ directory, so re-write the URL to appear to be a filename, rather than a URL with a query string.
            customPath = String.Format("~/Profiles.aspx?uName={0}", System.IO.Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(Request.Path));
            Context.RewritePath(customPath);
        }


    }

When i run this on the remote server at disountasp on a 208 server with asp.net 3.5 i get page not found. Any idea what the difference would be?

Answer 9

User1505216132 posted

Hello

I am facing the same problem, have u got any good result on this?.