Setting up custom 410 error redirects in IIS
I had picked a task that stated to replace some error 500 status pages and to set them to 410 ‘Gone’ error status.
This was fiddly as the project is server under a proxy and both handle URL Rewrites.
I ended up adding a new rewrite rule:
<rule name="Return 410" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".*" />
<conditions>
<add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(.*)\.ie(.*)$" negate="true" />
<add input="{Static410:{REQUEST_URI}}" pattern=".+" />
</conditions>
<action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="410" subStatusCode="0" statusReason="Gone" statusDescription="Gone" />
</rule>
And created a new rewrite map ‘Static410’ that contained all the links that had to be redirected as 410 error page:
Notes: I had to add the rule at the top of the rule stack.
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