I have an IIS setup with redirect rules that work perfectly fine on my Windows machine. However – I'm starting to use Mac – so I installed a VirtualBox VM with windows on it and used the exact same setup. Now the windows VM I got running on VirtualBox for Mac is the same as the same as the physical Windows machine I used so far.
Problem is that the url redirect is not working. From the guest machine (windows) I browse to the URL that should be redirected and it doesn't happen properly.
I assume this has something to do with how I configure the network for the virtual machine – do I have to create port forwarding rules? Which ones?
Here's the rule – from web.config (it works just fine on a physical machine):
<rule name="API" patternSyntax="ECMAScript" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="api/.*" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="https://api.MyDomain.com/{R:0}" />
</rule>
Regarding the VM – I defined two network adapters:
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1: NAT
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2: Host-only Adapter
Note that I have access to the web from the guest machine, I can also access my web service locally – all is fine except for the URL rewrite when the rule is applied.
Best Answer
Out of the box, UrlRewrite can only do rewrites to the same page, like this:
It seems you are trying to do a rewrite to entirely another site on another domain and possibly do ssl offloading - this is what Reverse Proxy does. For this to work, you have to have Application Request Routing installed.
What I would do to debug this config is: