I am trying to convert my site with seourl using urlrewrite 2.0..
Everything works in local system, but in the server, It is showing up error in the webconfig file, The configuration section ‘outboundRules’ cannot be read missing section declaration. The part of the webconfig is posted.

<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="RedirectUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^tutorial\.aspx$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^POST$" negate="true" />
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^id=([^=&amp;]+)&amp;title=([^=&amp;]+)$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Redirect" url="tutorial/{C:1}/{C:2}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
<rule name="RewriteUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^tutorial/([^/]+)/([^/]+)/?$" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="tutorial.aspx?id={R:1}&amp;title={R:2}" />
</rule>
</rules>
<outboundRules>
<rule name="OutboundRewriteUserFriendlyURL1" preCondition="ResponseIsHtml1">
<match filterByTags="A, Form, Img" pattern="^(.*/)tutorial\.aspx\?id=([^=&amp;]+)&amp;(?:amp;)?title=([^=&amp;]+)$" />
<action type="Rewrite" value="{R:1}tutorial/{R:2}/{R:3}/" />
</rule>
</outboundRules>
</rewrite>

And one more, When i post back, the query strings are appended
eventhough i had disabled append querystring

Thanks again for the response.

I am not aware of the differences between regex pattern matching between 1.1 and 2.0, but there might be some differences. URL rewrite uses the standard visual c++ regex library, which has had many bug fixes since v1.1 of URL rewrite was released.

However, looking at the pattern example I do not understand why it has to be so complex. It tries to match the query string, which URL rewrite never uses as an input to the rewrite rule pattern. I would suggest simplifying the pattern.

If you really have to have this pattern and do not need any of the URL rewrite 2.0 features (e.g. outbound url rewriting, setting of server variables, extensibilty) then you can continue using URL rewrite 1.1 – it is of a solid quality and has the same performance as v2.0.

I’ve posted on iis.net (http://forums.iis.net/t/1171510.aspx) but haven’t had much luck getting to the bottom of the issue.

Yes, it is possible. In the subfolder web.config file add the <clear/> elements at the beginning of the <rules> section. That way all the rules from the parent level will be removed and then you can add your subfolder rules.

One option I can think of is not to use global rules for reverse proxy. The reverse proxy can be implemented with normal distributed rules in web.config files.

If you do that then I think you should be able to write an HTTP module that gets to the request before URL rewrite.

I think that for the response headers to show content-encoding, the request should contain header “accept-encoding”, e.g.

Accept-Encoding: compress, gzip

You can try to make request with this header by using WFetch.