I have a SharePoint Enterprise site where I can get URL's to redirect locally, this was necessary due to content moving from the existing site to SharePoint and those mappings I have done. Now I have been asked to have some redirects away from the SharePoint site to another app server, so that any requests for an application URL within SharePoint should go to another server. This seemed possible to do with redirects but the Rules never seem to catch the URL, I end up seeing the requested application in the ULS logs, so it looks like the Rule never got caught.
What I want is something like: http://test.com/applicationName to go to http://testapp.com/applicationName test.com is the SharePoint server and testapp.com is another server in the same domain. applicationName is the URL to the main application page, in ULS I see /applicationName show up in the log as HTTP Request URL:/applicationName
I've set up multiple rules, both inbound and outbound, and it doesn't seem like this is working in the SharePoint environment - perhaps because its another server?
Simply my rules have looked for the URL with some RegEx's like .com/(.) where the backtrace of R:1 captures my applicationName, I then try to use a redirect of http://testapp.com/{R:1} so that I can request the same applicationName but on the different server but this doesn't seem to work. I've seen notes where I can do Redirects with SharePoint and URL Rewrite but not Rewrites, but even then when I have tried either way I still end up getting nowhere - not even an entry in the Failed Request Logging when that has been turned on.
Any ideas of where I could look or try and get more on this? Thanks!