Asp.net: how to make a separately skinned version in a subfolder?

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I am making an OEM skinned version of our ASP.NET site for a customer. I need to make a subfolder in the current architecture look like our main site, except that the pages are re-skinned with different images.

The web site uses one master page to do the layout, so I figure that I can handle all the skinning there, if I could redirect all requests to the subfolder to its corresponding page in the main hierarchy. Then the master page code-behind can check the original URL and adjust images accordingly.

Like so:

http://my.website.com/OEM/page.aspx

would be exactly like

http://my.website.com/page.aspx

but with different images.

What I have tried:

I created a Default.aspx in the subfolder, and in the code-behind I call Server.Transfer(). This seems to work for the main page, but I get Error 404 when I try to access any other pages.

Now I am far too lazy to make a file for every page on the web site, so I wonder if there is a way to configure the folder to funnel every request to /OEM/* to /OEM/Default.aspx, or even to have all requests automatically transferred to a different folder.

Note that I would not like to use HTTP redirects; the transfer should happen in the server side only.

Posted 9-Sep-16 3:44am

Staffan Bruun

Updated 9-Sep-16 4:56am

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Mehdi Gholam 9-Sep-16 10:11am

Why not create a new domain (i.e. http://oem.website.com) to another folder with the changed site?

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Richard Deeming · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-09T04:56:00

Sounds like you need the URL Rewrite[^] module.

XML

<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="Site Skin">
                <match url="^(OEM)/([^?]*)(.*)$" />
                <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}?_skin={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

This will redirect oem/anyPage.aspx?query to anyPage.aspx?_skin=oem&query; you can then use the _skin query-string variable to decide which skin to use.

Extending it to other folders is as simple as adding another value to the <match> element:

XML

<match url="^(OEM|OEM2|Another)/([^?]*)(.*)$" />