Our website is ready to go live, but I think I may have accidently moved web.config file to a different folder. Should the web.config file be located in the wwwroot folder? I added the following rewrite in the web.config file, it did not redirect to my custom hostname. I replaced https://www.example.com to my hostname. The hostname starts with account not www.

<rewrite>
                <rules>
                    <rule name="Redirect umbraco.io to primary hostname" stopProcessing="true">
                        <match url=".*" />
                        <conditions>
                            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="\.umbraco\.io$" />
                            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(dev-|stage-)(.*)?\.umbraco\.io$" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
                            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/umbraco" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
                            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/App_Plugins" ignoreCase="true" negate="true" />
                            <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" pattern="^/sb" negate="true" />
                            <!-- Don't redirect Smidge Bundle -->
                            <add input="{HTTP_COOKIE}" pattern="^(.+; )?UMB_UCONTEXT=([^;]*)(;.+)?$" negate="true" />
                            <!-- Ensure preview can render -->
                            <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^localhost(:[0-9]+)?$" negate="true" />
                        </conditions>
                        <action type="Redirect" url="https://www.example.com/{R:0}" redirectType="Permanent" />
                    </rule>
                </rules>
            </rewrite>

If it’s on Umbraco Cloud it’s expected to be in the root folder deployed, meaning in the web projects root which defaults to

src/UmbracoProject

I moved to src/UmbracoProject but it didn't redirect to account.something.com

Is that where your web project is located (The one referenced in the .umbraco file)? I don’t remember exactly, but I think is should work if it’s in

web.config

. You can always check kudu to see if

web.config

in the deployed folder (wwwroot, not to be confused with the projects wwwroot folder) has the correct rules https://docs.umbraco.com/umbraco-cloud/set-up/power-tools

So web.config and .umbraco files they should be located in the same folder?

No sorry,

web.config

should be in the folder referenced in the

.umbraco

file which defaults to

src/UmbracoProject

, so if you haven’t changed that it should work placing it in

src/UmbracoProject

, if it doesn’t contact support and they’ll help you (or I can test it out tomorrow and come back to you)

make sense. I think the screenshow above is correct location for web.config file.

Should be

wwwroot/web.config

(not the nested folder), if the rules aren’t there, then something’s wrong with the deployment/location of

web.config

, if they’re there then it’s the rules.

the rule is there.

I guess it depends on the rule (currently on my phone so it’s kinda hard to see code snippets, however at a glance they do look correct), I can test it tomorrow to see if there’s anything missing

Thank you! I appreciate it! Just let me know!