SEO URL rewriting ASP.NET

Question

I already have an ASP.NET Web Site

I want to change my site to be more SEO url friendly.

I want to change ex. this site: www.mydomain.aspx?articleID=5

to: www.mydomain/article/learningURLrewrite - articlename needs to be read from DB

How do I accomplish this?

I have already tried with some articles from Google which mentions IhttpModule without any luck.

My goal is to have a class responsible for redirecting based on folderpath(like this):

string folderpath = "my folderpath" (could be articles, products etc.)
string id = Request.QueryString["id"].ToString();

if(folderpath.equals("articles"))
{
   string name = //find name from id in DB
   //redirect user to www.mydomain/article/name 
}

if(folderpath.equals("products"))
{
   string name = //find name from id in DB
   //redirect user to www.mydomain/products/name 
}

Also I want to remove the aspx extension

Answer 1

You can use routing with ASP.NET WebForms too.

The steps are:

1. Add the route (or routes) at application start.

   //In Global.asax
   void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
       RouteTable.Routes.MapPageRoute("My Routename", "{*name}", "~/Article.aspx");
   }
   

2. Create the Article.aspx as a normal webform

3. In the code for Article.aspx, you can access the url path like this:

   public void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
       var thePath = RouteData.Values["name"];
   
       // Lookup the path in the database...
   }