I have a bunch of categories on my classifieds site. When you go into a category such as building supplies then hammers it comes up as for example, www.domain-name.com/search.aspx?c=3   

I would like to make it. www.domain-name.com/building_supplies/hammers/cat3.aspx

I have seen one person do it at: http://www.pagineannunci.it/default.aspx

Any ideas on how to do this.

Cheers!

Rob 

Firstly, believe me when I recommend the following slight change...

 www.domain-name.com/building_supplies/hammers_3_tools.aspx

Or something like that - essentially, it's easier not to go down the directory route if you want a fairly dynamic solution to rewriting - as, for example, all the images on www.domain-name.com/search.aspx?c=3   would work, but all the images on www.domain-name.com/building_supplies/hammers/cat3.aspx would fail because it would now be looking for /hammers/images/hammer3.gif rather than looking in the route. This is the case for all relative links in the site - so you can see what a pain it would be.

Other than that, take a look at this article by Scott Mitchell (4GuysFromRolla) http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms972974.aspx

And maybe use a simple generic method of rewriting that works like this: (this is a messy example that gives you the idea) -

This saves having to have a rewrite rule for loads of different pages and stuff - you just split your url and off you go...

.

		public void Rewrite_BeginRequest (object sender, System.EventArgs args)
		{
			//process rules here
			//cast the sender to an HttpApplication object
			//http://localhost/Rewrite.Test/[NAMEOFPAGE]_[IDOFPRODUCT]_[DESCRIPTION].aspx
			System.Web.HttpApplication Appl = (System.Web.HttpApplication)sender;
			string[] urlArray = Appl.Request.Path.ToLower().Split('/');
			string[] path = urlArray[urlArray.Length - 1].Split('_');

			if (path.Length > 2)
			{
				string page = path[0];
				string id = path[1];
				string band = path[2];
				Appl.Context.RewritePath("~/" + page + ".aspx?id=" + id);
			}
		}

Sohnee Thanks for your reply. So where would I put that code? On my masterpage ?

Cheers!

Rob

Sohnee Thanks for your reply. So where would I put that code? On my masterpage ?

Cheers!

Rob

Hi pagineguida,

Thanks for the link. I downloaded the UrlRewritingNet_20.zip file and read the PDF guide.

I am a little confused, would you mind giving me the web.config code, and other code that you used on www.pagineannunci.it?

Cheers!

Rob

>  "Sohnee Thanks for your reply. So where would I put that code? On my masterpage ?"

You can either pop it in a class file, or in a separate project so you can re-use it...

This is a very good example at  www.pagineannunci.it with URL Rewriting

 I would like to do something similar with my domain www.insideap.com.

In addition to this, i would like to know if i could add location in the url and drive the site based on location.

has any one done this?

In the above post he said he uses www.urlrewriting.net 

 
I downloaded the Zip file and it's a .dll file you put in your BLL folder or something I think (Same as Ajax toolkit)

I looked at the quickstart guide, it doesn't make a lot of sense.

If any one works it out, can you PLEASE TELL us how you did it!! (In super simple english please!!!) 

This could be a major break through, it looks better than something like,  www.domain-name.com/default.aspx?id=3  

Re-writing need (sample http://www.pagineannunci.it/immobili/cat26.aspx ):
1) Place .dll in bin directory
2) Modify web.config similar too:
<configSections>
    <section name="urlrewritingnet" 
             requirePermission ="false"
             type="UrlRewritingNet.Configuration.UrlRewriteSection, UrlRewritingNet.UrlRewriter"  />
  </configSections>

  <urlrewritingnet
    rewriteOnlyVirtualUrls="true"  
    contextItemsPrefix="QueryString"
    defaultPage = "default.aspx"
    defaultProvider="RegEx"
    xmlns="http://www.urlrewriting.net/schemas/config/2006/07" >
    <rewrites>
      <add name="uno"  virtualUrl="^http\://(.*)/(.*)/cat(.*).aspx"           
           rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString"
           destinationUrl="~/Search.aspx?c=$3&amp;NomeCat=$2"
           rewrite="Domain"
           ignoreCase="true" />
      
    </rewrites>   
  </urlrewritingnet>