asp.net MVC And I need to setup 301 redirects

Question

I have a site moving from php to asp.net MVC And I need to setup 301 redirects for it so like www.mystoresitem.com/products/widget1name needs to redirect to www.mystoresitem.com/widget1name for 700+ different widgets how do I redirect this with out doing it for each product/widget.

Answer 1

First of all you need to be sure that you installed URL Rewrite module in your IIS

Then in your web.config just add this rules inside system.webServer section:

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="Redirects to products">
            <match url="^products/(.*)" />
            <action type="Redirect" url="/{R:1}" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

It will automatically redirect all your urls

www.mystoresitem.com/products/{productname} to www.mystoresitem.com/{productname}