no free mod_rewrite for IIS

TeeJay on 2004-11-22T16:27:45

After a quick look, there doesn't seem to be a free url rewriter, like apache's mod_rewrite, for ISS that doesn't require paying out money.

Most of it is shareware-like (hardly inspiring confidence), no websites, no mailing lists, just a dll.. joy.

Can anybody reccomend a good rewriter or filter for IIS so that I can make subsections of a website go to a holding page or make an entire website point to the location requested but on a different server, possibly with a slightly modified path.


Microsoft KB Entry

speters on 2004-11-22T17:46:52

Take a look at the following from the Microsoft KB:

HOW TO: Redirect URLs to Different Web Sites

Re:Microsoft KB Entry

jjohn on 2004-11-22T18:20:48

Also, you can take advantage of 404 errors by make a script handle these. That script can then redirect as needed. The original GET argements are available to the 404 script (dump %ENV, I don't recall where the params are). I also ran into this IIS hole recently and it's just lame.

Re:Microsoft KB Entry

TeeJay on 2004-11-22T19:10:16

handy

So why do people pay dollars for the shareware crap?

I also note that it only exists to help migrate apache installations to IIS, IIS users themselves don't seem to ask as much from their webservers as Apache users.

ISS :-)

Matts on 2004-11-22T21:27:10

If there's one thing that *should* be shot into space, it's IIS.