Redirect Rule For IIS Sharepoint Site

Question

We have our Sharepoint 2019 site set up, and everything is running fine. However, when a user clicks the Brand Bar "Sharepoint" in the top left header, it brings them to a broken page. Researched this, and it seems like this link cannot be changed in 2019, as others are having this issue.

https://social.tec.net.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/1ef910ec-fb70-443e-bcf4-2d277dc11d2a/sharepoint-2019-on-premise-management-shell-not-working-as-expected?forum=SP2019

What we wanted to do is a redirect, so whenever they went to the broken link, it would just direct them to the real homepage for our sharepoint.

Example -

Broken link is http://servername/my/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx

Correct link is https://sharepoint.companyname.com/SitePages/Home.aspx

Here is what I came up with to add to the web.config file, but doesnt seem to be working.

<configuration>
   <system.webServer>
      <httpRedirect enabled="true" exactDestination="true" httpResponseStatus="Found">
         <add wildcard="*_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx" destination="https://sharepoint.companyname.com/SitePages/Home.aspx" />
      </httpRedirect>
   </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Any idea on what needs to be done here? Is this even possible? I didn't set up the sharepoint site here so I'm not sure how http://servername/my/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx even became the brand bar link.

Thank you!

Answer 1

If you want to redirect from servername/my/_layouts/15/sharepoint.aspx to sharepoint.companyname.com/SitePages/Home.aspx by iis url rewrite, you can try this rule.

<rule name="test6" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^my/_layouts/15/sharepoint$" />
    <action type="Redirect" url="http://sharepoint.companyname.com/SitePages/Home.aspx" />
</rule>

Answer 2

This has been resolved.

Not sure what happened, only thing I did was place the rule on the top most part of the tree in IIS where the server name is. Before I was putting the rule on the actual site in the drop down. I guess this makes sense since the URL I wanted to redirect had the server name in it.