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Jonathan
Asked: 2011-08-17 16:22:46 +0800 CST

URL rewrite rules lost upon restart

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Every time I restart my server my URL rewrite rules seem to get reset. Recreating them every time is obviously extremely frustrating!

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2 (fully updated), IIS 7.5 and IIS URL Rewrite 2.0.

Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this? Thank you in advance.

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  1. Best Answer

    Rather embarrassingly I have found that the issue was not related to a server restart. Instead, the loss occurred every time I published my site. I'd been setting up the rewrite directly on my server as I was unaware that the rule data is stored in the web.config file, meaning every time I'd publish my site the file would just get overwritten with my clean local copy.

    To fix, I just set up the rules locally in IIS and re-published my site.

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