VBScript code for setting HttpRedirect Property for a IIsWebFile programmatically

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I was helping one of my colleague whose customer wanted a custom VBScript file which sets redirection for certain files under a virtual directory. He wanted to use VBScript alone to achieve this.

A IIsWebFile node will be created in the metabase only when you specifically set a property for the file like HttpRedirect through the IIS manager UI. The below script, gets the IIsWebVirtualDir object of the virtual directory we are interested in, creates a IIsWebFile node and sets it HttpRedirect property:

 ' Virtual Directory under which you need to create the IIsWebFile

 vDirName = "IIS://localhost/w3svc/1/root/artinstitutes"

 ' Getting the Virtual Directory (IIsWebVirDir object)

 Set IIsWebVirtualDirObj = GetObject(vDirName)

  

 ' Call the CreateAWebFile function and pass the IIsWebVirDir object we have with the file name and the redirect url

 CreateAWebFile(IIsWebVirtualDirObj, "test.html", "/check.asp?id=0")

 CreateAWebFile(IIsWebVirtualDirObj, "test1.html","/check.asp?id=1”)

  

 ' Commit the changes to the Metabase

 IIsWebVirtualDirObj.SetInfo()

  

 ' This function takes 3 arguments

 ' 1 = IISObject – the container object

 ' 2 = filename – physical FileName which needs to be redirected

 ' 3 = redirectFileName – redirect URL

 Function CreateAWebFile(ByVal IISObject, ByVal fileName, ByVal redirectName)

  

     Set myFileCheck = GetObject(vDirname & "/" & fileName)

  

     If (Err.Number <> 0) Then

         Set myFile = IISObject.Create("IIsWebFile", fileName)

     End If

     myFile.HttpRedirect = redirectName & " ,PERMANENT"         myFileCheck.SetInfo()

 End Function

Hope this helps!