IIS Rewrite Cheat Sheet

<rewrite>
  <!-- Have a bunch of redirects?  Put them in a separate file -->
  <rules configSource="Rewrites.config" />

  <rules>
  
    <!-- Simple rewrite -->
    <rule name="Simple rewrite" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^path/sub path/page\.aspx$" />
      <action type="Rewrite" url="/newpath.aspx" />
    </rule>
    
    <!-- Simple redirect -->
    <rule name="Simple redirect" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^path/sub path/page\.aspx$" />
      <action type="Redirect" url="/newpath.aspx" />
    </rule>
  
    <!-- Based on query string -->
    <rule name="Based on query string" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^path/sub path/page\.aspx$" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^parameter=value$" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Redirect" url="/newpage.aspx" appendQueryString="false" />
    </rule>
    
    <!-- Based on host name -->
    <rule name="Based on host name" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^path/sub path/page\.aspx$" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{HOST_NAME}" pattern="^(www)?wakefly\.net$" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Redirect" url="http://www\.wakefly\.com/newpage.aspx"  />
    </rule>
    
    <!-- Canonical redirect -->
    <rule name="Canonical redirect" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="(.*)" />  
      <conditions>
        <add input="{HOST_NAME}" pattern="^www\.wakefly\.com$" negate="true" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Redirect" url="http://www\.wakefly\.com/{R:1}"  />
    </rule>
    
    <!-- Force HTTPS -->
    <rule name="Force HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="(.*)" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" />
    </rule>
  
    <!-- Stop hot-links -->
    <rule name="Stop hot-links">  
      <match url=".*\.(gif|jpg|png)$"/>  
      <conditions>  
        <add input="{HTTP_REFERER}" pattern="^$" negate="true" />  
        <add input="{HTTP_REFERER}" pattern="^http://wakefly\.com/.*$" negate="true" />  
      </conditions>  
      <action type="Rewrite" url="/images/troll_face.png" />  
    </rule>


<!--
MORE RULES FROM:
http://ruslany.net/2009/04/10-url-rewriting-tips-and-tricks/
--->
<rule name="Remove trailing slash" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)/$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}" />
</rule>

<rule name="Add trailing slash" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*[^/])$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="{R:1}/" />
</rule>


<rule name="Convert to lower case" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*[A-Z].*" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Redirect" url="{ToLower:{R:0}}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>


<rule name="Canonical Host Name" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" negate="true" pattern="^ruslany\.net$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="http://ruslany.net/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

<rule name="Redirect to HTTPS" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTPS}" pattern="^OFF$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="https://{HTTP_HOST}/{R:1}" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>


<rule name="Return 503" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^products/sale/.*" />
<action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="503"
subStatusCode="0"
statusReason="Site is unavailable"
statusDescription="Site is down for maintenance" />
</rule> 


<rule name="RewriteUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^([^/]+)/?$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
<!--  The following condition prevents rule from rewriting requests to .axd files -->
<add input="{URL}" negate="true" pattern="\.axd$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="article.aspx?p={R:1}" />
</rule> 


    
  </rules>
</rewrite>