This metabase property specifies the directory or URL to which a client is redirected when attempting to access a specific resource. There are two general forms that the value for this property can take.
The simple format is Destination, Flag, where Destination can specify either a URL or a virtual path to a file. Flag can have one of three values: EXACT_DESTINATION indicates that the value provided for Destination should be considered an absolute target location; CHILD_ONLY indicates that the value should be added to the beginning of the file name of the request to be redirected; and PERMANENT indicates that this redirection will be permanent for this resource.
The more complex form of specification for this property involves the use of wildcards. The format is *; Wildcard1; Destination1; Wildcard2; Destination2, Flag. Each Wildcard; Destination pair indicates that requests matching the wildcard are redirected to the specified destination. Flag can have the same values as the simple string format.
| Data type | String |
| Default value | Empty string (no redirects) |
| Inheritance | Inheritable |
This property is accessible at the following locations:
| Metabase Path | Key Type |
| /LM/W3SVC | IIsWebService |
| /LM/W3SVC/N | IIsWebServer |
| /LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT | IIsWebVirtualDir |
| /LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT/WebVirtualDir | IIsWebVirtualDir |
| /LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT/WebVirtualDir/WebDirectory | IIsWebDirectory |
| /LM/W3SVC/N/ROOT/WebVirtualDir/WebDirectory/WebFile | IIsWebFile |
The following table lists additional information required only for code that uses the IIS Admin Base Object.
| Metabase identifier | MD_HTTP_REDIRECT |
| Data type | STRING_METADATA |
| User type | IIS_MD_UT_FILE |