For us IIS URL Rewrite module is the way to go.
How can sitemanager maintain Urls and publish on demand?
Do we need to make an exception in cd deployer to publish it to disk?
Before DXA we published Rewrite.config to filesystem and used that file from web.config.
With DXA it can be created like this.
You can publish the rewrite.config to the broker and extend something like the URLRewrite.NET module to load the configuration from the database instead of the filesystem. The cool thing is that you can use it ahead of the DXA Static context module and before DXA starts processing the URLs.
One thing to consider is how you are loading the config from the broker since you could have many topology websites with multiple web applications hosted as a single website in IIS. Coming up with regex patterns for all of them and managing the configuration would be key to keeping the solution scalable.
A poor man's solution would to have a Razor template (or anything for that matter) publish a custom extension to the deployer. You can then configure your deployer to copy the custom extension to a filesystem instead of the broker database. You can include this in your IIS module for it to be picked up OOTB, This would still work but need to consider scaling among other considerations / configuration. Hope it helps!
Please refer to the link from the documentation link
If you still want to manage the redirection you can use the re-write module on IIS web config
We have come across a legacy solution which was maintaining URL redirects and rewrites in a component and publish that as a config file to the file system (you need to configure .config extension in the storage config to publish this to the file system). Here is an issue with this approach:
So, while this is possible, I can confirm we are on a path to revamp this as a whole as the solution is not flexible/scalable (and becomes unsecured if you have to hack to support thousands of redirects/rewrites).
