IIS Config

question about fake directories

[ajbattrick]

On Apache I can set up so that:

<Files image>
ForceType application/x-httpd-php
</Files>

means that I can do links like

[server.com...]

and then parse the url with PHP to grab the number. image is a script rather than a directory.

My question then is if this is possible with IIS. I can do the vbscript part, but its the IIS server config that I have little idea about.

[korkus2000]

I think what you want is a virtual folder.

Try this.
[support.microsoft.com...]

[Xoc]

I think you need to create an ISAPI filter to pull this off in ASP.

In ASP.NET, you can configure a the web.config file to accomplish the same task.

[ajbattrick]

korkus that doesn't really help, but Xoc perhaps you're onto something. I don't know if my host supports them though, and not how to write one either. I don't suppose you know of an already pre-written one for this purpose?

Cheers

[jarvster]

I know I'm a bit late but this is entirely possible on iis. The way to do it is to create a custom 404 error page in iis which will process the url string as your example and provide the information from the database or whatever.
By using a...
Response.Status = "200 ok"
..at the beginning of your code will mean that the client (browser,spider etc) will recognise your url as valid and think it exists.

So you can very easily create many,many pages from your database content, like this...

www.domain.com/category/sub-catagory/product_id.htm

[Xoc]

You are right--a 404 handler will let you do this.

[Giacomo]

Right! Who needs ISAPI filters when you can do wonders with a 404.asp page, clever URL parsing and a few Server.Execute's? ;)