Exchange, Exchweb and Pub do not redirect
I have a new Exchange 2010 server and an Exchange 2003 server. When I browser to https://exchange2010server/exchange I do not get redirected to https://exchange2010server/owa. Instead, I get the default .NET "Server Error in '/' Application... Runtime error... please create a <customErrors> tag...." In IIS, httpredirect is no enabled for the legacy virtual folders Exchange, Exchweb and Pub. If I try to enable it for these directories, it also get's enabled for the OWA directory/application causing a loop for my site. I have recreated the legacy Exchange Virtual Directories using appcmd but the httpredirect still does not get enabled. Does anyone know how I can reenable the httpredirect on the legacy Exchange Virtual Directories without affecting my OWA directory? I can see from other Exchange servers that it should be set to /owa but I can't make this change without affecting my OWA directory. Thank you.
November 10th, 2010 1:05pm

Hi, In IIS, httpredirect is no enabled for the legacy virtual folders Exchange, Exchweb and Pub. If I try to enable it for these directories, it also get's enabled for the OWA directory/application causing a loop for my site. I am not very clear about this. Why the HttpRedirect will be also enabled for the OWA? By default, the HTTPDIrectory option is only enabled on Exchange, Exchweb and Pub: 1. Open IIS Manager, expand to Exchange directory. On middle panel, Click HTTP Redirect 2. Only check the option "Redirect requests to this destination", type: /owa 3. Change the Status code to "Found (302)". 4. Repeat these steps to Exchweb, Public. 5. Open the HTTP Redirect page of OWA, make sure that all items are unchecked. 6. Run iisreset to restart IIS services. Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread. Thanks Gen Lin-MSFT
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November 11th, 2010 12:48pm

The problem is that when I do what you suggest, it also puts a check mark in the same setting for the OWA directory. I don't want it on the OWA directory because this causes a loop. Any idea how to get around this? Thank you.
November 15th, 2010 5:28am

After you do those steps above you need to go into the owa directory and edit the web.config file remove the following lines at the end of the file and restart iis : <system.webServer> <httpRedirect enabled="true" destination="/owa" childOnly="false" /> </system.webServer> In IIS it will still look like owa is redirected but owa won't be.
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March 30th, 2011 11:24pm

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