Google Friendly ISAPI Rewrite for IIS (Archive Files)

[myMigration]

Hi Guys

I just wanted to share with you my findings on using ISAPI Rewrite on IIS to get the archive links on v3.0.7 to display google friendly.

eg:

From:
http://www.domain.com/forum/archive/index.php?t-1.html

To:
http://www.domain.com/forum/archive/t-1.html

Here is how its done:

Install ISAPI Rewrite from http://www.isapirewrite.com there is a 30 day trial or a free lite version.

once installed edit the httpd.ini file and add the line:
RewriteRule /forum/archive/([^/.?]+\.html) /forum/archive/index.php\?$1 [I,L]

Now edit the index.php and global.php in the ARCHIVE FOLDER.
eg: /forum/archive/

Find and replace 'index.php?' with ''
Save both files.

Thats it - browse to your archive pages:
http://www.mydomain.com/forum/archive/

And you have very friendly google links!

NOTE: Requires Windows Server and IIS (Internet Information Services) this will not work on Apache (although there is a very good mod_mime hack to do the same thing on Apache)

Regards

myMigration

[Marco van Herwaarden]

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