Rewrite Rule with optional parameter iis7.5

[spydersweb Profile]

Hi there

I have a rewrite rule setup for the news section of our site. The rule is as follows:

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Rewriterule ^/motorcycle_news/categories/(.*?)/news_(\d+)_(.*)\.html$ /newsItem.asp?cat=$1&cpID=$2&page=$3 [NC]

This will rewrite links like this:

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http://www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-“very-important”.html

This works fine however when it comes to links from places like twitter they place tracking code after the .html as follows:

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http://www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-%E2%80%9Cvery-important%E2%80%9D.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Of course this doesn't work because of the $ after the .html in the rewrite rule. However I have been given the following code to try, which I thought might work but doesn't:

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RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^(utm_source=.*&utm_medium=.*)?$ [NC]
Rewriterule ^/motorcycle_news/categories/([^/]+)/news_(\d+)_(.*)\.html$ /newsItem.asp?cat=$1&cpID=$2&page=$3 [NC]

Does anybody have any clues on how I can fix this?

Many thanks in advance for any help.

Graham

[Sergey]

I guess you are looking for [QSA] flag

QSAppend or QSA — appends query string of the original request to the Substitution string (regardless of whether Substitution has new query string or not). It may be useful when you need add new query string parameters but also preserve the originally requested ones

Please try

RewriteRule ^/motorcycle_news/categories/(.*?)/news_(\d+)_(.*)\.html$ /newsItem.asp?cat=$1&cpID=$2&page=$3 [NC,QSA]

[spydersweb Profile]

Hi Sergey,

I have tried this but it doesn't work unfortunately. The people who tweet our news articles on our website want to be able to track where users are coming from hence appending to the original URL. The problem I have been faced with is that, if I remove the $ from after the .html part of the rewrite rule then of course it works. However the problem with this is that each of the url's also fail on with PCI compliance because cross scripting code can also be added to the URL and can be executed.

Therefore I only want to be able to add Google's tracking code to the links only so they would be considered optional:

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http://www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-%E2%80%9Cvery-important%E2%80%9D.html(?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)

Cheers
Graham

[Sergey]

Could you please show rewrite.log for
http://www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-%E2%80%9Cvery-important%E2%80%9D.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
request

[spydersweb Profile]

I am not sure what is going on but I cannot get the rewrite.log file to be written to. I have setup httpd.conf and the error.log file is showing but even though the directive to write to the rewrite.log file is in place it does not seem to work.

Do you have any thoughts on this?

Sorry Graham

[Sergey]

Please try to grant NTFS write permissions for rewrite.log file for Everyone and perform iisreset

[spydersweb Profile]

Ok, that worked thank you. Here is the log for a successful transaction:

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217.32.220.226 217.32.220.226  Tue, 07-May-2013  14:14:41 GMT [www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/sid#6][rid#23887320/initial] (3) applying pattern '^/motorcycle_news/categories/([^/]+)/news_(\d+)_(.*)\.html$' to uri '/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-�very-important�.html'
217.32.220.226 217.32.220.226  Tue, 07-May-2013  14:14:41 GMT [www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/sid#6][rid#23887320/initial] (1) Rewrite URL to >> /newsItem.asp?cat=motorcycle-parts&cpID=801580922&page=rossi-jerez-is-�very-important�
217.32.220.226 217.32.220.226  Tue, 07-May-2013  14:14:41 GMT [www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/sid#6][rid#23887320/initial] (2) rewrite '/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-�very-important�.html' -> '/newsItem.asp?cat=motorcycle-parts&cpID=801580922&page=rossi-jerez-is-�very-important�'

Of course trying to run it with the tracking details on the end of the URL doesn't work and so of course nothing logs at all.

Many thanks for all your help.

Graham

[Sergey]

Seems request interrupted before ISAPI_Rewrite.

You can use "Failed request tracing" tool in Iis for debug this issue, please provide us with this logs

[spydersweb Profile]

I have done that and the XML log is attached to this post.

I hope this helps.

Cheers
Graham

[Sergey]

We need freb.xsl too, please zip all folder with log

[spydersweb Profile]

Sergey, hi

Many thanks here are the required files.

Cheers
Graham

[Sergey]

Sorry but I can't see target url, only
http://www.phmotorcycles.co.uk:80/usedbikes/10128/[l]/images/biketraderimages/{ds::imgfile}

please request
http://www.phmotorcycles.co.uk/motorcycle_news/categories/motorcycle-parts/news_801580922_rossi-jerez-is-%E2%80%9Cvery-important%E2%80%9D.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

[spydersweb Profile]

Sergey, good afternoon

Hope you are well. Please find attached the failed request log.

Cheers for all your help.

Graham

[phil12d3 Profile]

Will this work?

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Rewriterule ^/motorcycle_news/categories/(.*?)/news_(\d+)_(.*)\.html(\?(.*))?$ /newsItem.asp?cat=$1&cpID=$2&page=$3(?4&$4) [NC]

[spydersweb Profile]

Phil, hi

YOU ARE AN ABSOLUTE ******************************* STAR!

Thank you so much, that worked a charm.

Cheers
Graham