.Net 1.1 url rewrite on iis 7

Question

We have old aspx application written in .NET 1.1 with url rewrite (wildcard) on IIS 6.0 and I need to upgrade to IIS 7.

App is now working on IIS 7.0 but without url rewrite.

I tried this example:

http://improve.dk/blog/2006/12/11/making-url-rewriting-on-iis7-work-like-iis6

but this example is for .NET 2.0 and these steps change web.config with elements not permitted in ASP.NET 1.1.

Is there any way configure IIS 7.0 for .NET 1.1 app without changing the source code?

Answer 1

I'm presuming that you've installed .NET 1.1 on your server and that your application is running inside an application pool configured to use .NET Framework 1.1 as per this article:

How to install ASP.NET 1.1 with IIS7 on Vista and Windows 2008

If you are then try adding the following to your web.config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
 <system.webServer>
  <handlers>
   <add name="ASP.NET-ISAPI-1.1-Wildcard" 
        path="*" verb="*" modules="IsapiModule" 
        scriptProcessor="C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4322\aspnet_isapi.dll" 
        resourceType="Unspecified" requireAccess="None" 
        preCondition="classicMode,runtimeVersionv1.1,bitness32" />
        </handlers>
 </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Answer 2

Since you linked to my blog in your post, I'll allow myself to link to a newer version of that post (which is also linked to in the original post): http://improve.dk/archive/2009/10/14/how-to-do-url-rewriting-on-iis-7-properly.aspx

You should be able to use the "Rewriting using an HttpModule" method to add URL Rewriting to your app without modifying your existing code.