Redirect URL (in IIS?)

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How can I make the Kinetic URL shorter? (For the sake of argument, let’s say I can’t touch the DNS - though that is actually an option.)

As an example from our development server,

  1. Data Collection is at https://subdomain.domain.com/DevK22Azure/Apps/ERP/Home/#/login?mode=dc
  2. How can I make it so that https://subdomain.domain.com goes directly to that long URL above?
  3. Or, perhaps, if it helps, could we do a different short URL (like http://dc.domain.com) that redirected to the long URL (item 1)?
  4. Or, is there a way to have https://subdomain.domain.com/ direct to some kind of index.html page that I could make?

I dabbled briefly in IIS with the settings below. It worked in some ways and made others worse.

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Those settings do indeed accomplish a redirect from (2) to (1) - from https://subdomain.domain.com/ to https://subdomain.domain.com/DevK22Azure/Apps/ERP/Home/#/login?mode=dc

However, the problem is that if I try to enter the URL for the office interface, it ALSO redirects to the Data Collection site. And of course that is not what we want.

In fact, this seems to redirect ANYTHING that begins with https://subdomain.domain.com/ - even different app server endpoints. I’m not trying to make anything on https://subdomain.domain.com/ go to one place; only the exact address of https://subdomain.domain.com/

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I’ll bump this post and then stop pestering if no one replies.

I mean, someone here does this, right?

Or do you all expect your users to memorize https://mycompany.com/Kinetic2022_2Production/home or whatever the URL is?

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  1. Open IIS Manager.
  2. Select your site (subdomain.domain.com)
  3. In the Features View, double-click on “URL Rewrite.”

Now, add a new rule:

  1. Click “Add Rule(s)” on the right.
  2. Choose “Blank Rule” under the “Inbound Rules” category.

Configure the rule:

  1. Set the pattern to ^$ (matches the root).
  2. In the “Action” section, set the action type to “Redirect.”
  3. Enter the redirect URL as /DevK22Azure/Home.
  4. Check the boxes for “Append query string” and “Redirect type” (choose Permanent or Temporary based on your needs).

See where that gets you

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YES!

I think that works in all ways that I try to break it. Thank you muchly.

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I want to bump this post, for everyone else’s sake. This works great. We went live on the redirect in January.

People here only use the browser, so this has been tested thoroughly for 9 months.

Also, a dev environment is on the same server and it is not adversely affected by the redirect.

Point is, if you are on prem, I highly recommend this for making life a lot easier on your users (and yourself).

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