URL rewriting

[z3r0aCc3Ss]

I am on windows (pathetic) server, and wanna implement URL rewriting. How do I do that?
Windows server cannot understand .htaccess file. Where should I write the code for URL rewriting? Also, is the rewriting in linux is same as that of in windows server?
Please brief me on this issue.

[ayu]

The htaccess file does not have anything to do with the OS, it will work under Windows in Apache as well.

What web server are you using?
I will assume IIS since you can't use htaccess?

[bad_brain]

well, first of all the needed module has to be installed on the server:
http://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

if it isn't: no chance.

if it IS installed here you can find examples of how to use it:
http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url ... ite-module" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[z3r0aCc3Ss]

The htaccess file does not have anything to do with the OS, it will work under Windows in Apache as well.

What web server are you using?
I will assume IIS since you can't use htaccess?

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http://www.addedbytes.com/articles/for-beginners/url-rewriting-for-beginners/

Just check the above link (Platform and Tools section).
Indeed, I have to install a module, as b_b said. But I guess, I don't have access to that level.
So, what to do now?
But I guess, htaccess is linux specific? No???
And yeah, U r correct. I have IIS 7.5 installed. That's the reason may be I am unable to cope up with htaccess.

[bad_brain]

well, IIS can NOT utilize .htaccess, the IIS version of .htaccess is web.config, the syntax is of course also different there.
without the rewrite module I only see one option: setting up aliases on domain level....if that's a solution of course depends on what you actually want to do. pretty URLs will of course not work with it, because it only applies to links and not to the actual URLs.

[z3r0aCc3Ss]

@b_b, can you please show me one example on how to rewrite?
If I'm not wrong, its in web.config file.
I googled about it, but no luck. Just a simple working example.

[maboroshi]

Here's an example which may help you

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http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4410067/iis-url-rewrite-and-web-config-question

[z3r0aCc3Ss]

Thank you so much maboroshi...