ISAPI redirect to external site in IIS 6.0

Question

I'm using ISAPI Rewrite 3 and my server is running IIS 6. I've never used ISAPI Rewrite before, so I'm a bit in the dark about how to use it.

I'm trying to do a simple redirect, so that if anyone hits

http://www.mysite.com/page.aspx

on my server, they are redirected to

http://externalsite.com/dir/file.htm

which is an external site that isn't mine. Is there a way to do this, or a tutorial that will show me how? I can't find anything on it.

Answer 1

There are numerous tutorials on this module. You can use these links for the beginning:

• Exploding myths about mod_rewrite. Part I
• Exploding myths about mod_rewrite. Part 2.
• Helicon Ape - mod_rewrite documentation
• ISAPI_Rewrite examples

Besides ISAPI_Rewrite, Helicon Ape and mod_rewrite are different products rewrite syntax is the same, so you can use documentation for either product.

For the redirect you are asking I guess it should be the following rule in the www.mysite.com .htaccess file:

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^page.aspx http://externalsite.com/dir/file.htm [NC, R]