ASP.NET URL Rewriting

Question

How do I rewrite a URL in ASP.NET?

I would like users to be able to go to

http://www.website.com/users/smith

instead of

http://www.website.com/?user=smith

Answer 1

Try the Managed Fusion Url Rewriter and Reverse Proxy:

http://urlrewriter.codeplex.com

The rule for rewriting this would be:

# clean up old rules and forward to new URL
RewriteRule ^/?user=(.*)  /users/$1 [NC,R=301]

# rewrite the rule internally
RewriteRule ^/users/(.*)  /?user=$1 [NC,L]