The Url Rewriting uses regular expressions so I think you need the ^ at the start of the Virtual URL ( ^ = carat?) which tells the regular expression to start the match from the start of the string

Here is an example from the UrlReqriting.config

<urlrewritingnet xmlns="http://www.urlrewriting.net/schemas/config/2006/07">
   <rewrites>
      <add name="produktidrewrite" 
           virtualUrl="^~/product/(.*).aspx"
           rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
           destinationUrl="~/product.aspx?productid=$1" 
           ignoreCase="true" />  
   </rewrites>
</urlrewritingnet>

I will have a look to see if i have a good example and get back to you.

Well, so far I haven't had any luck with this.

Is anyone using this with umbraco?

I'm gonna go for another solution: change the LocationPicker.aspx reference in my html code :-s

After doing some playing about with umbraco and the UrlRewriting, it doesn't look possible from a QueryString.

This must be to do with the path only being processed (not 100% sure on this but looks very likely).

So to summarise for you, it is possible to do it the other way round ie page to another page with a query string appended:

Courtesy of CWS: The sample below rewrites a url from "/product/someproductid.aspx" to  "/product.aspx?productid=someproductid"

<add name="CWS_emaiAFriendID" virtualUrl="^~/email-a-friend/(.[0-9]*).aspx" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="~/email-a-friend.aspx?nodeID=$1" ignoreCase="true" />

Documentation for UrlRewriting

http://www.urlrewriting.net/160/en/documentation.html

Fabulous!!!

That works exactly!

Great stuff, thanks for sorting this out... RegEx is great, but nitty gritty ;-)

Thank you!

Well, I was a bit too soon calling it all good ... :-(

I guess in my enthousiasm I clicked on the destination node from within the umbraco admin app ...

It still doesn't work

Page not found

No umbraco document matches the url 'http://local.cms.development:90/LocationPicker.aspx?state=WASHINGTON'

[code]

<add name="statepicker"
         redirect="Application"
         virtualUrl="^~/\?state=(.*)"
         rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
         destinationUrl="~/service-locations/states/$1"
         ignoreCase="true" />

[/code]

I try to tinker with it a bit myself ... RegEx doesn't seem to want to enter my brain atm :( 

[code]    <add name="statepicker"
         redirect="Application"
         virtualUrl="^~/LocationPicker.aspx\?state=(.*)"
         rewriteUrlParameter="IncludeQueryStringForRewrite"
         destinationUrl="~/service-locations/states/$1.aspx"
         ignoreCase="true" />[/code]

WORKS!!!

Thanks for getting me on track!!

No worries, I am glad that worked :)

Shout up if you have any further problems.

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