iis - Using URL Rewrite to change part of URL -

i'm trying use url rewrite on iis 8.0 rewrite existing url:s on developer machine. reason don't want change existing (old) code.

what i'm trying achieve change following code in response stream:

<a href="http://www.foo.com/path/page.asp?a=1">foo page</a> 

into:

<a href="http://www.foo.localhost/path/page.asp?a=1">foo page</a> 

but when i'm trying, end with:

<a href="foo.localhost">foo page</a> 

and know, not satisfying result.

so - how do rewrite proper achieve i'm trying do?

i know there better ways of doing this, using application variables etc., it's old solution , don't want mess application itself. want keep changes minimum. @ least begin with.

the rules tried this:

<system.webserver>   <rewrite>     <outboundrules>       <rule name="foo.com" enabled="true">         <match filterbytags="a, area, base, form, frame, head, iframe, img, input, link, script" pattern="foo.com" />         <action type="rewrite" value="foo.localhost" />       </rule>     </outboundrules>   </rewrite> </system.webserver> 

i guess there regex magic should using.

your rule needs changed to:

<rule name="foo.com" enabled="true">   <match filterbytags="a, area, base, form, frame, head, iframe, img, input, link, script" pattern="^(.*)foo.com(.*)$" />   <action type="rewrite" value="{r:1}foo.localhost{r:2}" /> </rule> 

in pattern, ^(.*) match (0 or more characters) beginning before foo.com , (.*)$ after foo.com until end.

you can use references in action, {r:1} take value matching (.*) before foo.com , {r:2} value matching (.*) after foo.com