Prevent UrlRewrite for existing files

cristian.libardo@dropit.se

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I'm trying to implement a typical splash-page functionality while using episerver 5. Whenever I hit the www.site.com/ I want to be served a static html page but once I move from there and go to the startpage from within the site I see the "default" start .

It's totally okay to map / to the static file and /en/ to the startpage in episerver.

With the old url rewriting I used to be able to map e.g. index.html as the preferred default page type and since this was found before default.aspx I would get index.html whenever I go for the / directory.

However the new url rewriting is "smarter" and catches my request for /(index.html).

I tried various combinations e.g. mapping .htm to ssinc.dll but I'm venturing into unknown territory here.

As soon as I enable the wildcard mapping episerver will serve the startpage in episerver.

Any ideas on how to solve this? Is there a way to tell the FriendlyUrlRewriteProvider to ignore pages that are "found"?

#19546

Apr 16, 2008 11:21

cristian.libardo@dropit.se

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Oh, and the IIS version is 6

#19547

Apr 16, 2008 11:22

cristian.libardo@dropit.se

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#19548

Apr 16, 2008 11:22

cristian.libardo@dropit.se

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It seems an custom url rewrite provider did the trick:

public class SplashUrlRewriteProvider : FriendlyUrlRewriteProvider
{
    public override bool ConvertToInternal(EPiServer.UrlBuilder url, out object internalObject)
    {
        if (url.AppRelativePath == "~/")
        {
            url.Path = "/index.htm";
          internalObject = PageReference.StartPage;
            return true;
        }

return base.ConvertToInternal(url, out internalObject);
}
}

#19549

Apr 16, 2008 12:27