Iis 4 redirects

Hi all,

I would like to place a url like http://www.domain.com/123 in an advertisement so that it is easy for a user to type it in, but would actually be redirected by iis (without another ip) to something like http://www.domain.com/ads/index.asp?ad=123. Is this possible without the use of another ip and/or is this possible from within iis?

Thank you for your time and consideration,
cranium

You could use asp code to redirect. There is a not-free isapi IIS_Rewrite that probably could do what you want, but I don't know if it works on IIS4 and you'll need to google to find it, I don't have a link.

Thank you for the response, but how could I use asp for the redirect? If the server doesn't understand the url http://www.domain.com/123 it would just give an error???

If you have a folder 123 with a default asp page, default.asp could consist of nothing but


But it sounds to me like you're looking for some equivalent to apache mod_rewrite, and the only option I've heard of is that iis_rewrite isapi (which btw I've never used).

I thought about that route, but there will be some 100 ads per year sent out and it will be required of me to track each one; that could start to get a little messy with all of those folders in the root directory, that is why I was looking for a different way.

Texas Instruments does something like I want, maybe seeing how theirs works might lend some insight in what I want to do?

url: http://www.to.com/ads5546

Thank you for your time and consideration,
cranium