URL Rewriting under IIS at GoDaddy?

Just an update to this question. As of today, I am able to get the URL Rewrite Module in IIS7 to work at godaddy. I have an "Economy Hosting - Windows" account with Godaddy.

Just an update to this question. As of today, I am able to get the URL Rewrite Module in IIS7 to work at godaddy. I have an "Economy Hosting - Windows" account with Godaddy.

I uploaded a very simple web. Config to my site's root directory (called "html" in my case), and redirect is working correctly for me. Here's my simple test web.

Config: When I try to visit

– GoodEnough Oct 6 '09 at 18:30 This worked for me. I think the mistake I made was that I didn't originally put the node under . I haven't tested my original since I was able to modify this sample to make it work.

Thanks. +1 – Steve ner Feb 10 '10 at 17:02 Now I just have to figure out how to get it to grab the entire query string and slap it on the end of the new url. Just using appendQueryString="True" does not appear to be sufficient - I get a 404 for URLs with query strings.

– Steve ner Feb 10 '10 at 17:17.

I have a friend at GoDaddy who said that they are planning to support the Microsoft Url Rewriter soon, but it's not currently installed. For now, I'm using the ManagedFusion Url Rewriter on my blog which is hosted at GoDaddy. If you want details on how I have it setup, check out my blog post, or another stackoverflow question I answered.

I found your post after a while, I tried it but it kept giving me the error 500. I went with a Linux hosting account which I'll upgrade to Windows once they support the Microsoft Url Rewriter. Thanks – GoodEnough Jan 7 '09 at 14:26.

Just a note to others who may be having trouble. Make sure to have in your web.config.

As odd as this may sound, I think URL Rewrite works on Windows Economy Hosting with IIS7, but not on Windows Deluxe Hosting accounts (with IIS7). I've got one of each hosting account, and I was able to get URL Rewrite to work perfectly on the Economy Hosting account but doesn't work at all on the Deluxe account. I found that if I included even the tag I would start getting 500 errors and I couldn't find any variation that worked.

When I contacted Godaddy, they said that there was an error in my config file, but couldn't explain why the configuration that worked on Windows Economy account (any on my local IIS7 server), but not on the Windows Deluxe account. They went as far to say that the configuration may vary slightly between their servers, but URL Rewrite should be on all of them. I don't believe them.At any rate, here's the file that I got to work on my Economy account if this can help anyone.

I realize this is an old question, but the additions to my web. Config file's system. WebServer node from this learniis.Net article made everything work for me.

The additions are included below.

1 It doesn't seem to have that particular module (since I'm getting the error 500 page), but it says that it supports URL rewriting, maybe through ASP. Net or with another module. – GoodEnough Jan 6 '09 at 15:15 yeah, you could do your own URL rewriting without that particular module, so perhaps that's what it means.

But the rule you're trying to use is dependent on the module. – alex Jan 6 '09 at 19:04.

I'm having exactly the same problem. As soon as I include the tag in the element I'm getting type 500 errors. I'm trying to use this with MediaWiki.

The domain hockeywiki. Org is installed pointing at a subdirectory from my hosting account. The web.

Config file is in the root of that subdirectory, and MediaWiki is installed in the /w folder. Strangely, GoDaddy tech support pointed me to URL Rewriter for IIS documentation. Is there some other tag that needs to be added to enable Rewriter processing?

Or does the element signal it to run?

Latest update from GoDaddy support... Windows hosting accounts that are running IIS7 do support the URL Rewrite Module by default. Unfortunately we would be unable to provide further assistance on this issue as we do not provide scripting support. For further information you can view Microsoft’s® URL Rewrite Module documentation.

Please let us know if we can assist you in any other way. And now I'm completely confused. The web.

Config file won't accept the tag, and according to GoDaddy it should be enabled and functioning properly.

I had the same problem, and I have just sovled it. I created web. Config with VS 2008, when I upload the web.

Config file, a 500 error turned out. After I deleted encoding="UTF-8" in the web. Config file, it works great!

This is my blog tzingchu.com on GoDaddy's win shared hosting.

There are work arounds to maake URL re-writing work on GoDaddy. I did a work around using 404 FileNotFound and HttpContext.Current. RewritePath(rewritePage) technique for my website.

I was searching on here for a similar issue with multiple godaddy wordpress blogs running under one main hosting account with IIS7, each with it's own domain name. The issue was the trailing slash, "/blog" vs "/blog/", since godaddy treats "/blog" as a file and then triggers the 404. I put a web.

Config file in the hosting root folder with maps for each blog and it seemed to do the trick.

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