Clean URL on IIS7

avatar MarkA Pro Jun 28. 2009. 1:49 am #1
I have been trying to implement our site on an IIS7 server and was able to get everything to work .. however, the last thing wasn't expected was running the clean URL .. according to ac support "you cannot implement Clean URL fix on non apache hostings. IIS does not support .htaccess files." which is correct..

So I did a little research and was able to successfully run the the clean URL using a workaround..

I thought to share this link with you:
http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/470/importing-apache-modrewrite-rules/
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Jun 28. 2009. 5:14 am #2
Thank you for sharing this resource, I was not aware that Microsoft made that process so easy.
avatar MarkA Pro Jun 28. 2009. 11:27 pm #3
Lucky me.. I had no choice but move it to our server and quite frankly once you are used to clean url's it's difficult to go back :-) you guys are doing great job in helping everyone and I'm glad to participate when I can.
avatar Intercode Limited Pro Oct 8. 2009. 9:35 am #4
Hey, this is amazing.

Shame it wasn't mentioned in the installation manual though, could have saved me a few hours ;)
avatar Ilija Studen Staff Oct 8. 2009. 2:07 pm #5
Thanks for bumping this topic and reminding us to update the docs. I just updated Removing /public/index.php from URL-s article to include link to this tutorial. Hopefully IIS7 users will find it useful.