how to use url rewriter.net to auto rewrite urls

Question

i am trying to rewrite any URL that match this pattern:

~/Ahmed
~/Name

to this:

~/User/Ahmed/Ahmed.aspx
~/User/Name/Name.aspx

and i can write them individually but what i am trying to do is detect any URL that look like "~/User/Ahmed/Ahmed" and auto rewrite them to this "Ahmed"

thanks

Lilith River · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21T14:01:16.273

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Hopefully you're using the UrlRewritingNet library, not UrlRewriter? The former is suggested over the latter.

However, in either you can use a regex:

"~/User/([^/\\]+)/\1.aspx"  ->  "~/$1" //For ".aspx" in the URL
"~/([A-Za-z]+)" to "~/User/$1/$1.aspx" //For /Name in the URL.

Note the ([^/\]+) means any set of characters without slashes, and "\1" is a backreference to the previous capture, that ensures the name is an exact duplicate. Note that you should enable "ignore case" if you want to support "/User/ahmed/Ahmed.aspx" and not just "/User/Ahmed/Ahmed.aspx".

edited May 21 '11 at 14:01

answered May 21 '11 at 10:38

Lilith River

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i tried this`` but got resource not found – Wahtever May 21 '11 at 10:52
You've got them backwards. Switch url and to. – Lilith River May 21 '11 at 13:55
Unless your question is backwards. Does the URL in the browser end in ".aspx"? – Lilith River May 21 '11 at 13:56
yes you are right my question is backwards (very sorry) its fixed now – Wahtever May 21 '11 at 13:57
Yes, but now it doesn't make sense, because you won't be able to have any pages - they'll be 'names'. – Lilith River May 21 '11 at 14:02
i just made the url look like this ~/User/Name and now it works thanks very much – Wahtever May 22 '11 at 10:55
but now it rewrite images url so is there anyway to stop from rewriting these – Wahtever May 22 '11 at 16:52
`` this is the full code – Wahtever May 23 '11 at 15:34
– Lilith River May 24 '11 at 09:22
when i tried this i got directory listing not the actual page – Wahtever May 24 '11 at 09:44
incoming url `elwazefa.com/User/Name` to be rewrited to `elwazefa.com/User/Name/Name.aspx` – Wahtever May 24 '11 at 11:25
I don't have access to your environment or files, so I can't really help you debug what you're doing wrong. I suggest you start by studying regular expressions a bit, then experimenting with different URLs to see happens. http://www.regular-expressions.info/ – Lilith River May 25 '11 at 10:44

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