ISAPI Re-Write, Oscommerce Contrib Help please!

[rhwd2003]

Thanks for the help upfront.

I have Windows Server 2003 with IIS6 with oscommerce setup for my ecommerce website. There is a new contribution out that helps rewrite file and directories to help with seo. I have installed the contribution and it required Apache but the creator of the contribution told me to post here the following:
"Post a question and include the documented section from SEO-G, they should be able to answer it as these guys probably have all the necessary tools for IIS and the expertise. It should be an ISAPI rewrite that needs to be done to support it. I don't believe you would need to change any of the php code."

The documented section can be downloaded at [oscommerce.com...]

V1.05 is the latest.

I apologize if this is very vague but I am trying to get this to work on IIS and don't know where to start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[rhwd2003]

Here is what I am trying to do in the .htaccess file to help explain a little better:

#-MS- SEO-G Added
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
# Next line must be changed to match your osCommerce folder - the relative path
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ root.php?%{QUERY_STRING}
#-MS- SEO-G Added EOM

[mattglet]

I'm pretty sure you can't use an .htaccess file with IIS... that's your first problem.

[enigma1]

he's not trying to use .htaccess. He needs the equivalent in IIS. Unfortunately due to the commercial nature of IIS I cannot help him there. So there should be some sort of remapping like:

#*$!x.html -> directory/root.php

However this is just an assumption on my part and I have no idea really, as I don't use IIS.

[Staffa]

On windows server the equivalent of .htaccess is httpd.ini
You need to have isapi_rewrite installed on the server to use this file.

I suggest that the best place to find an answer is the isapi forum at helicontech

[pageoneresults]

You need to have isapi_rewrite installed on the server to use this file.

I'll concur with the above. Without it, what you are trying to do cannot be done.

I suggest that the best place to find an answer is the isapi forum at helicontech.

Always a great starting point for answers to your ISAPI_Rewrite questions. They are usually pretty quick to respond over there too.

[enigma1]

allright, thank you very much