Removing .aspx from pages using rewriteModule?

Question

I\'m using ASP .NET rewriteModule to rewrite http://example.com to http://www.example.com.

Answer 1

These are the standard rewrite rules I start every project with. I use only clean URLs for all the pages (example first rule works for www.example.com/about and second rule www.example.com/product/123)

Pages where I need to parse out the ID (this case number only) and add it to the query string I add a similar rule to the front:

If you want to use lower and upper case letters in the URL, set ignoreCase="true"

Edit to answer your second question plus a bonus

This rule will redirect aspx page to the clean URL:

Replace url="{R:1}" with url="{ToLower:{R:1}}" to change URL to lowercase. See below why you would want to do this.

Also a good idea to update the Form action so that post backs don't return back to the ugly URL. Using IIS 7.5 or newer this should work:

 if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Request.RawUrl))
        form1.Action = Request.RawUrl;

or for IIS 7:

 if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(Context.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL"]))
        form1.Action = Context.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL"];

One more thing to keep in mind... it's a good idea to keep all URLs lower case. Mixing lower/upper case characters in the URL creates duplicate content issues for SEO/Google. For example website.com/About and website.com/about will load the same page, but Google will index them as two separate pages.