URL Rewrting in ASP.net 2.0 and/or IIS 6.0

[bermanbp]

Hello,

I have a page, custom.aspx, that accepts a parameter in the query string called 'id'. Depending on the ID, it will load the proper content for a custom donation page.

I need to be able to set one of these ID, e.g 999, to be the default page. So instead of going to website.com/donate/custom.aspx?id=999, I would like the end user to be able to navigate simply to website.com/donate and for it to display custom.aspx?id=999. I cannot simply do a forward as I never want the user to see the custom.aspx?id=999 for the default page. All the other non-default pages should be available through website.com/donate/custom.aspx?id=xxx.

I have not been able to figure how to do this and am not sure if this is something I should be tackling in IIS or in my ASP.net code-behind. Any pointers, examples, or help is greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Brett

[Roelf]

what you can do in your custom.aspx code behind, is check if the id is present as a url parameter. If not, load/show the stuff from the database as if id=999 was present in the url. You also have to tell iis that custom.aspx is the default page for this subfolder of your website. Probably have to define it as a virtual directory and set the custom.aspx as the default in the documents tab.

[demtron]

One way to accomplish rewriting it to create a handler to parse the url, determine what the target path will be, then call HttpContext.ReWrite() with the new path. Hope that helps.