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BVN404 - Partial route match

r.solaiappan@amaze.com

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Hi,

One of my client has decided to redirect all the image gallery items to a new url. We have implemented BVN 404, and have tried different options like below

Old Url : /image-gallery/

New Url : /redirect-gallery/

and

Old Url : /image-gallery

New Url : /redirect-gallery

But nothing works, as expected, always responds 404. Whereas if I do a full url, the redirect happens fine. The issue with having full url is the image gallery will have more than 1000's of url , which are uploaded by the users of the website.

Where as with wild card enabled, all the subpages, redirects to the root page.

The BVN version we are using is 3.1.3.899

Any suggestions to try?

Thanks,

Rams

#198454

Oct 29, 2018 11:26

Scott Reed

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You could do it using standard rewrite rules at the web.config level. That's usually the most performant way to handle large redirects and pattern matched urls

#198458

Oct 29, 2018 11:39

Scott Reed

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Something like

<rule name="ImageGalleryRedirect" stopProcessing="true">
   <match url="image-gallery/(.*)" />
   <action type="Redirect" url="redirect-gallery/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

#198459

Edited, Oct 29, 2018 11:45

r.solaiappan@amaze.com

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Hi Scott,

Thanks for responding. That is the solution proposed, but Client wanted to use the BVN kind of administering the urls that are getting redirected, as this gives them more control over web.config changes. Any other suggestion with BVN 404?

Thanks,

Rams

#198460

Oct 29, 2018 12:01

Scott Reed

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Yes we use BVN ourselves but in my expereince BVN is good for some flexibility for the client but I'd always try to use web.config for any known large scale rewrites. BVN hooks in to the routing at the application level so is a lot more expensive that web.config, if wildcards are not working you could try making sure the logging is working or pulling the source and debugging

#198461

Oct 29, 2018 12:24