How to create url rewrite rules in Umbraco

This post teaches you how to set rewrite rules for your umbraco site. You may want to force your site to go to a secure url or force it to go to a url with www. at the start.

If you are looking for the new way to do it, using the ASP.NET rewrites have a look at this post.

To add these rules, you need to go to the file /config/UrlRewriting.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  <urlrewritingnet xmlns="http://www.urlrewriting.net/schemas/config/2006/07">
    <rewrites>
    <!-- Use this rule to redirect a url without www at the front to one with www at the front. - From http://codeshare.co.uk to http://www.codeshare.co.uk -->
    <add name="NoWWW" virtualUrl="^http\://codeshare\.co\.uk/(.*)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="http://www.codeshare.co.uk/$1" redirect="Domain" redirectMode="Permanent" ignoreCase="true" />
 
    <!-- Use this rule to redirect a secure url without www to a secure url with www. at the front. - From http://codeshare.co.uk/ to https://www.codeshare.co.uk/ -->
    <add name="NoWWWS" virtualUrl="^https\://codeshare\.co\.uk/(.*)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="https://www.codeshare.co.uk/$1" redirect="Domain" redirectMode="Permanent" ignoreCase="true" />
 
    <!-- Use this rule to redirect a non-secure url to a secure one with www at the front. - From http://codeshare.co.uk/ to https://www.codeshare.co.uk/ -->
    <add name="Secure" virtualUrl="^http\://(.*)" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="https://$1" redirect="Domain" redirectMode="Permanent" ignoreCase="true" /> 
 
    <!-- Use this rule to redirect the xml sitemap path. - From http://www.codeshare.co.uk/sitemap.xml to https://www.codeshare.co.uk/xmlsitemap -->
    <add name="sitemapxml" virtualUrl="~/sitemap\.xml" rewriteUrlParameter="ExcludeFromClientQueryString" destinationUrl="/xmlsitemap" redirect="Domain" redirectMode="Permanent" ignoreCase="true" />
  </rewrites>
</urlrewritingnet>

You will find the last rule useful when trying to implement the code in my other post XML Sitemap in Umbraco

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