By DirtyBirdNJ on
Hello, due to *very* unfortounate circumstances I'm pretty much forced into developing on a Windows 2003 server. It seems like the only way to preserve the SEO functionality is with this $100 product called ISAPI_Rewrite.
I'm curious how using ISAPI_Rewrite will affect Path and Pathauto modules. SEO is VERY important to the site I'm working on... and it would be a shame to be deprived of url rewriting because I can't use apache on windows (due to Miva Empresa).
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Hello? Anybody? Will using ISAPI_Rewrite on IIS6 break path & pathauto? It's a simple question...
It's not that the question
It's not that the question isn't simple-- it's the odds of someone using drupal with iis & isapi_rewrite 3 seeing your post that's the problem. After struggling to get drupal working with iis and isapi_rewrite I just gave up and went with apache.
I realize that's not an option for you-- just realize it means your iis/isapi_rewrite questions may take longer, if ever, to get an answer.
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Makes sense...
Alright, I follow where you're coming from. The main reason (because I know someone will ask) I can't use Apache on windows is because the store software we are running (Miva Merchant 5, which depends on Miva Empresa, the offending software) cannot run on windows with apache... on linux Apache is supported and reccomended. It's infuriating.
ISAPI_Rewrite versioning aside, does ISAPI_Rewrite allow you to use IIS6 as if it had mod_rewrite and .htaccess rules? Will I have to go into the config files to set up Clean URLs or am I making more work for myself?
My goal is to develop the Drupal site on my linux web server (tired of waiting for php to get configured) and then move the site over to the IIS6 server when we get PHP to run on it.
ISAPI_Rewrite versioning
That's the idea-- but I never did manage to get it working. And yes, I had to manually enable clean urls in the config file and it still didn't work.
However, this was over a year ago and I was using the lite version (don't think that should have had an effect though)-- let's hope there's been improvements since then.
Take a look over at http://www.iis-aid.com -- I seem to remember getting lots of good iis / drupal info there.
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"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." - Lao Tzu
"God helps those who help themselves." - Ben Franklin
"Search is your best friend." - Worldfallz