Redirect a url to another url in IIS 7.5

Question

I have no idea why this isn't working. I've tried creating map rules and then rewritng and redirecting the url. I've tried just redirecting it with a simple rewrite rule and no matter what, the only time I can get it to work is if I set the match url to match this regex .*.

I'm trying to redirect webmail.example.com to mail.example.com. Seemed like it would have taken but a couple seconds; boy was I wrong. I'm thinking I must be doing something wrong with the regex, but I'm not sure what as when I test it it seems to work fine.

            <rule name="webmail" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
                <match url=".*webmail.*" />
                <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
                </conditions>
                <action type="Redirect" url="https://mail.example.com:8000" appendQueryString="false" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
            </rule>

Thanks

Answer 1

I assume that you dont have DNS access then - as this would take seconds to set up!

I see your filter is: <match url=".*webmail.*" />

I may be totally wrong here but, you have a ' . ' before the first wildcard... surely it is looking for anything that includes this 'dot' in that position, which the URL you are working with doesn't... surely it should just be <match url="*webmail.*" />