Redirect requests to this destination

Select this option to enable redirection and to specify the URL to which to redirect requests. Requests can be redirected to a virtual path, such as http://www.contoso.com/sales, or to a file, such as http://www.contoso.com/sales/default.aspx.

Redirect all requests to exact destination (instead of relative to destination)

Select this option when you want clients to be redirected to the exact URL as specified in the Redirect requests to this destination box.

When this option is not selected, the destination is relative to the value specified in Redirect requests to this destination. For example, if you configure the redirection destination to be http://www.contoso.com/sales, and an incoming request is http://www.contoso.com/marketing/default.aspx, IIS will redirect the request to http://www.contoso.com/sales/default.aspx.

Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories)

Select this option when you want clients to be redirected to content in only the directory that is specified in the Redirect requests to this destination box.

When this option is not selected, requests are redirected to the location in the Redirect requests to this destination box, and to any subdirectories under that location. For example, if you configure the redirection destination to be http://www.contoso.com/sales, requests may be served from directories under /sales when the Redirect all requests to exact destination (instead of relative to destination) option is not also selected.

Status code

Select one of the following options to specify the redirect status code that is sent to clients:

• Found (302): Tells the Web client to issue a new request to the location. This is the default option.
  
  
• Permanent (301): Tells the Web client that the location for the requested resource has permanently changed.
  
  
• Temporary (307): Prevents a Web browser from losing data when the browser issues an HTTP POST request.
  
  

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