IIS 7 Friendly URL rewrite

Question

I have seen a thousand examples of this:

<rule name="ex1" enabled="false" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^article/([^/]+)/?$" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Rewrite" url="article/{R:1}.html" />
</rule>

Which I can easily get to work. What I am trying to do however is to have www.mydomain.net/test rewrite to www.mydomain.net/test.html which I tried to make work with the config below.

<rule name="ex2" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
    <match url="^/([^/]+)/?$" />
    <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
    </conditions>
    <action type="Rewrite" url="/{R:1}.html" />
</rule>

Unfortunately I haven´t had any success and I get a simple 404 on every try. Although, when I test my regex it is successful for anything that I wish to match - eg www.mydomain.net/test.

Can anybody provide any insight into why this is?

(Using Win7, IIS7 Ultimate).

Answer 1

You might try matching on this instead:

"^([^/]+)/?$"

And replacing with this:

{R:1}.html

I'm not certain, but I don't think IIS matches on the leading / so that might be what is tripping up your rewrite.

Example: http://regexr.com?36jiq