IIS rewrite working as redirect

Question

What i understand about Url rewriting and redirect is (please point out my wrong assumptions)

• by using "redirect" option for url http://localhost/Search/VehicleDetails.aspx?id=2 to transform it into http://localhost/Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx ,when client browse http://localhost/Search/VehicleDetails.aspx?id=2 and our redirect rule changes into http://localhost/Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx ,the server tries to find VehicleDetails.aspx page inside /Search/2 folder.

• but by using "rewrite" option for url http://localhost/Search/VehicleDetails.aspx?id=2 to transform it into http://localhost/Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx ,when client browse http://localhost/Search/VehicleDetails.aspx?id=2 , client browser displays http://localhost/Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx ,but internally in server request is made in VehicleDetails.aspx page of Search directory ,not in VehicleDetails.aspx of /Search/2 directory...

and my problem is ,i tried to rewrite url by following rule

<rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Search" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url="^.*(?:Search/VehicleDetails.aspx).*$" />
          <conditions>
            <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="id=(\d+)" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/Search/{C:1}/VehicleDetails.aspx" redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="false" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>

it redirects to /Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx page with HTTP 404.(The resource cannot be found.) .I want that client browser shows http://localhost/Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx but request is made on /Search/VehicleDetails.aspx ..

And also how do i get values of id (2 in this example) for the url like

http://localhost/Search/2/VehicleDetails.aspx by Request.QueryString["id"]??

Answer 1

You need to select the Append QueryString checkbox in IIS or add this manually, for example: -

<action type="Rewrite" url="/Search/{C:1}/VehicleDetails.aspx" 
redirectType="Permanent" appendQueryString="true" />

I noticed you have this set to False which will be why the ID is not being carried over and is probably the reason for the 404 too.