redirect help... Ending Default.aspx

[mdameron76 Profile]

Here is what i'm trying to do...

'I want to still be able to use real aspx pages at the root
http://www.sample.com/real.aspx

'Rewrite Category Pages
http://www.sample.com/example-category/default.aspx
http://www.sample.com/example-category/ -> redirect back to http://www.sample.com/example-category/default.aspx
http://www.sample.com/example-category -> redirect back to http://www.sample.com/example-category/default.aspx

'Rewrite Sub Categories
http://www.sample.com/example-category/example-sub-cat.aspx
http://www.sample.com/example-category/sub-cat-title-again.aspx

Can anybody help shine some light on this? I just keep getting failed attempts

[Anton]

Hello,

Please try to use the following rules:

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/?$ /$1/default.aspx [R=301,L]

and as for sub-categories, I didn't understand what to rewrite/redirect and where. Please clarify.

[mdameron76 Profile]

Thanks for the reply...

as for the sub-categories it will be as followed.

'Rewrite Sub Categories
http://www.sample.com/example-category/example-sub-cat.aspx -> subpage_lookup.aspx?title=?
http://www.sample.com/example-category/another-fake-directory/sub-cat-title-again.aspx -> subpage_lookup.aspx?title=?

but there can be unlimited sub directories so would I have to use more than one rule to handle each of the directories?

[mdameron76 Profile]

Ok, so here is what I've came up with

RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/?$ /$1/default.aspx [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)/?$ /$1/default.aspx [R=301,L]
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/default\.aspx$ /page.aspx?title=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)/default\.aspx$ /page.aspx?title=$1 [NC,L]

RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)\.aspx$ /page.aspx?title=$1 [NC,L]
RewriteRule ^([^./]+)/([^./]+)/([^./]+)\.aspx$ /page.aspx?title=$1 [NC,L]

but it will only handle up to 2 sub-directories
basically I will be doing a lookup on the url to get the page content. and the urls will be based on the site hierarchy
is there a way to reduce this or make it better?

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

Our extensive experience tells that it's better to have a little more simple rules than one cumbersome rule. Reason for that is that a complicated big rule may sometimes fail to match the intended URL.

We strongly recommend creating a separate rule for a case, though we could have done it in less number of lines.
(having extra 20, 30, 50 lines or rules has never made any difference in terms of performance)

Regards
Andrew