I think that we already talked about it: http://www.mono-software.com/Mono/Pages/Discussion/dtopic/jNazg-jJWE6dkZ9XAU0JdA/NA/?dmsgId=zPksla0QbkaEPZ9XAU0JdA#PostzPksla0QbkaEPZ9XAU0JdA
The approach without "music" part of the URL could work, but it is more complicated, as you have to make sure that no other URL rewriting rule interferes with it, as it would catch all URLs without a slash in the path.

Ya..

Proven to be extremely complicated..

I did manage to remove the back / requirement though for the profile name..

<set property="MusicProfile" value="/CustomProfiles/MusicProfile/"/>
<rewrite url="^(.*)/music/(.*)/?$" to="${MusicProfile}/Music.aspx?UserName=$2" name="Profile" urlPattern="/{UserNameUrlEncoded}"/>

so now i have domain/music/theband working..

I am still getting a lot of grief though about not getting the domains to domain/username =/

I am thinking other options at this point like i considered bandname.domainname.com if I could figure out a easy way to do it..
but dont know how at the moment or if its even more complicated then the url rewrites.

Hi,

yes, this can be a bit complicated but it is doable, I see that you maybe want to i implement the bandname.domain.com for this type of rewriting you need to implement custom module as I can recall. If you want to use that approach let me know and I'll try to provide you with the code to do this kind of url rewriting.

Regards 

I would be interesting in it although I am not sure how complicated it is..

I am worried that it may require DNS changes that may be a bit complicated..

But if you got any ideas I would like to see those..

I am thinking that bandname.domain.com may be a work around to the core url rewritting issue above with trying to make all the url rewrites work inside the pages idea..

My original idea was to move all of Monox into www.domain.com/pages and then have www.domain.com/ anything other then pages point to www.domain.com/other - that would load a MonoX profile..

My concern though is with how complicated it is to write all those url rewrite paths and how much room for error I am introducing =/

This approach would require full control over your DNS and IIS, and it has nothing to do with MonoX. It cannot work on shared hosts. You would need to set up a wildcard DNS record to catch all possible band names, and use a similar IIS binding (only one binding of a type "All unasigned" is allowed per IP). As you can imagine, this is not the simplest scenario to work with.
You alternative approach could work, but as you've said it would require moving everything else one level down in the URL rewriting scheme. I guess this could be done, but it requires a lot of work.

Hi Guys,

Well good news is I do have complete control over the DNS.

I have a virtual dedicated server..

So If its not to complicated then I am game for trying it.

My guess is it will be less complicated then trying to rewrite all the paths to sub paths..

You would need to set up a wildcard DNS entry and IIS binding first: http://dirk.net/2008/05/28/wildcard-host-header-binding-and-subdomains-with-iis7/
After that, you would need to setup something along these lines in your URL rewriting rules:

I got two problems..

It appears that our code formatter changed my rule a bit, so please try to use this:

<if header="HTTP_HOST" match="^(.+)\.thepittsburghscene\.com$">
 <set property="subdomain" value="$1" />
 <rewrite url="^/(\?(.+))?$" to="/Music.aspx?UserName=${subdomain}&amp;$2" />
</if>