IIS Rewrite rule doesn't work

Question

Good day,

I have a website developed in WordPress, it has a subsite, the mains sites URL is https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za the subsite is https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za/imt I want to redirect https://imt.flamengro.co.za to https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za/imt. https://wp-tes.flamengro.co.za and https://imt.flamengro.co.za have the same ip address. I have tried the two below examples but https://imt.flamengro.co.za loads the main site. The OS is Windows Server 2019 with iis server 10.0.17763.1.

				<rule name="IMT Path to Another Domain" stopProcessing="true">
					<match url=".*" />
					<conditions>
						<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="imt.flamengro.co.za" />
						<add input="{PATH_INFO}" pattern="/(Path1).*" negate="true" />
					</conditions>
					<action type="Rewrite" url="https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za/imt" />
				</rule>

				<rule name="imt" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(www.)?(imt).flamengro.co.za$" />
                    <conditions trackAllCaptures="true">
                        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www.)?(imt).flamengro.co.za$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za/{R:2}" />
                </rule>

Answer 1

Hi @Chris du Preez,
You just use the following redirect rule:

                <rule name="redirect" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url=".*" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="imt.flamengro.co.za" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za/imt" />
                </rule>

I have tested this rule and can successfully redirect https://imt.flamengro.co.za to https://wp-test.flamengro.co.za/imt.

It is recommended that you clear your browser cache before testing. If you still can't succeed, try using FRT to trace the rewrite rules, you can see how the rules are used internally.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/iis/extensions/url-rewrite-module/using-failed-request-tracing-to-trace-rewrite-rules.

If you have any questions, please continue to communicate with me and I will get back to you as soon as I see it.

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