Moving Website from .net 4.8 to .net 6 - mod rewrite of redirection of aspx pages to cshtml

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Moving Website from .net 4.8 to .net 6 - mod rewrite of redirection of aspx pages to cshtml

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Moving Website from .net 4.8 to .net 6 -

I have webpages with next to no c# written for .net 4.8 and the webpages end in .aspx

I want move to .net 6.0 with Blazor and the webpages will end in cshtml.

how do I redirect to the new cshtml pages using a 301 redirect?

Can I redirect all webpages using mod rewrite for redirection of aspx pages to cshtml

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Hi @Grant Wilson,

Can I redirect all webpages using mod rewrite for redirection of aspx pages to cshtml

Do you want to redirect from one application to another? If you mean using both aspx and cshtml in the same application. Then this cannot be achieved.

If you mean that you want to upgrade an ASP.NET Framework Web Forms app to ASP.NET Core MVC, then you need the .NET Upgrade Assistant. For more details, please refer to this doc: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/migration/web_forms?view=aspnetcore-7.0

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Xudong Peng

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Grant Wilson 0 Reputation points

2023-05-31T14:30:28.1833333+00:00

Thanks for your efforts to answer the issue.

We started a website CanadianCRC.com and picked asp.net 20 years ago. The website has 2,000 webpages and basically no c#, just a small amount of JS for menus systems. We don't use any asp.net controls or whatever. It's basically all html, js and uses a master page for menus, header, footer and sidebars. The content webpages just put content into the content placeholder spaces which include an area of the header, and state which master page to use to merge the content into a view. We never did do any development in c# as we planned. We want to do development and code on this website and so we are reevaluating if we do anything more in .net 4.8 or move every webpage to whatever the curent version is of .net ( likley .net6 which our shared hosting can use). If we redo the2,000 webpages into a razor or blazor webpage so we can develop in the future, the question is can we convert all of them and then have a 301 redirect in the IIS web.config file to redirect all webpages that ended in .aspx to whatever the new file names are which we think will end in .cshtml if using Blazor or razor. Alternately if we can run .asp .net 4.6 and .net 6 on the same shared hosting space at the same time, we could convert the html webpages to whatever ending in cshtml and put a 301 redirect into the old aspx page which we have done in various means like c# or JS.

This is really What platform to use in the future for 2,000 html static webpages which end with .aspx and which don't really use asp.net 4.8 except for merging the content pages with a masterpage. What do we use and learn in .net6 Razor or Blazor and how do we do redirects from thousands of people on the internet? We have had over 50 million people visit our website overt the last 20 years. What future framework do we use in the future and if we are going to start to add c# coding, it looks like we should probably move to .net 6 which is more modern than .net 4.8.
Anonymous

2023-06-01T07:34:15.5766667+00:00

Hi @Grant Wilson,

Of course, what you mentioned depends on your final requirements, such as cross-platform, high performance, etc. You can refer to this document to compare the advantages of these two frameworks before making a choice: Choose between ASP.NET 4.x and ASP.NET Core.

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