IIS7 Url Rewrite Rule regex to make new path and strip extension

Question

How can I create rewrite rule is to achieve the following:

before: content/release/0.9.html

after: release-notes/0.9

right now I'm having:

<rule name="Rewrite rule1 for content">
    <match url="^content/release/(.+)$" />
    <action type="Rewrite" url="release-notes/{R:1}" />
</rule>

How can I get rid of the ".html" in the "after" output?

Answer 1

Try this:

<rule name="Rewrite rule1 for content">
    <match url="^content/release/(.+)\.html$" />
    <action type="Rewrite" url="release-notes/{R:1}" />
</rule>