Avoid changes in main web.config on Publish to Cloudformation from VS

Question

Publish to CloudFormation from Visual Studio is great, it gives you the possibility of deploying your web site to a single server or a Load balanced stack.

The problem rises when you want to deploy more than 1 web site in a single server, because in each deployment the main web.config located in c:\inetpub\wwwroot gets modified adding UrlRewrite. This redirects all requests from previous deployed web site to the new one. I.e. / --/FIRST --/SECOND

If I ask for a page on First it's searched in /Second/First.

The changes applied are as follows:

    <rewrite>
        <rules>
            <rule name="AWS_DEPLOYMENT" stopProcessing="false">
                <match url="^(https?://[^/]+/)SECOND" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{PATH_INFO}" pattern="^/SECOND" negate="true" />
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}SECOND{PATH_INFO}" logRewrittenUrl="true" />
            </rule>
        </rules>
    </rewrite>

Is there a way to get rid of this behavior and leave main web.config as it is?

Answer 1

In AWS Forum I found the answer: not supported https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=309811.

A simple additional settings to disable this URL Rewrite would be enough, let's hope Amazon will add it in future .NET SDK releases