IIS 7 Url Rewriting & Windows Authentication

Question

Hi,

We are trying to use IIS 7 URL Rewrite module to get rid of pages/default.aspx in sharepoint which uses Windows Authentication. But after setting a rule the web application keeps prompting for credentials. But sometimes hitting F5 returns the page content (but again sometimes).

Failed request tracking on IIS says windows authentication module error. I have read in some blogs & forums that IIS 7 URL rewriting is not supported by SharePoint, but i have not read this in any of the Microsoft articles.

Any ideas or alternative solutions would be appreciated.. thanks in advance.

[Update 1] - Got mail from Premium support that 'URL Rewriting' is not supported by SharePoint in any versions. Any alternative solutions are welcome.

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Satheesh
http://spsatheesh.wordpress.com

Answer 1

What are you tryng to acheive?

 

-Ivan

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Answer 2

Sharepoint has own AAM feature which is kind of URL rewrite (although not so flexible). What do you mean by "get rid of pages/default.aspx"? Do you want some kind of custom routing (like in ASP.Net MVC)?

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Answer 3

Here is my situation..

We have a intranet home page on SharePoint (which if of type publishing portal). Now when users hit http://intranet.company.com they are getting redirected to http://intranet.company.com/pages/default.aspx. So, we don't want to show /pages/default.aspx in the address bar, but still load the default.aspx page just by showing http://intranet.company.com in the address bar.

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Satheesh
http://spsatheesh.wordpress.com

Answer 4

Url rewrite is not supported by SharePoint.

However it is possible to write your own HttpModule that handles rewrite correct. I have done this with a SharePoint SEO solution.

Answer 5

Thank you.. you have any documentation on that.. or some information that could be shared at high level.

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Satheesh
http://spsatheesh.wordpress.com

Answer 6

Im sorry I can't publish the source since i wrote it for another company.

Basicly what you do is creating a HttpModule that rewrites your optimized url to the original publishing url e.g. http://www.domain.com/sub-site/pages/default.aspx to http://www.domain.com/sub-site/. The original publishing urls will be permanent redirected to the optimized urls. You could implement a response filter that modifies the urls in the html content. SharePoint 2010 do not support response filters due to new IIS 7.0 pipeline. However i posted a workaround for that here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010programming/thread/86908ade-d2e5-49f1-95ea-31b216807a97/.

There are alot of pitfalls that needs to be handled if you chooce to rewrite e.g.  ajax post backs, sharepoint crawling and many others.

The vendor i wrote the solution for sells it as a plugin for SharePoint. I can get their contact information. If you would be interrested. You can see an example of a sharepoint publishing site that runs with url rewrite here : www.falck.dk

 

 

Answer 7

Thanks Anders,

Do you have suggestions when this module should be in execution cycle in IIS?

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Satheesh
http://spsatheesh.wordpress.com

Answer 8

I'm using UrlRewriter.NET is an open-source, light-weight, highly configurable URL rewriting component for ASP.NET 1.1 – 4.0.

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