Removing the querystring

[chris_f]

This is an issue which is talked about alot. I wish to ask this question to finally get a definitive answer.

We know most search engines do not crawl pages that have a querystring in the url

Note: A url with a querystring is a URL in the format of
www.domain.com/page.ext?var=value
like
www.domain.com/articles.aspx?id=15

Is there a way (using either ASP.net/VB.net, apache or some other free software) of performing a url rewrite so that, for example

www.domain.com/articles/15

points to

www.domain.com/articles.aspx?id=15

Please note that my site will be ISP hosted so it shouldn't require IIS alteration or software installion. However, please post solutions that do require IIS alterations and software solutions here aswell because they might be helpful to someone else. Just make it clear at the top of the post which category it falls in.

If you do have a solution can you please post or sticky an idiots guide.

Many Thanks
Chris.

[olwen]

I found good information on doing this with PHP and apache on the PHPbuilder site. I got rid of my query strings with their advice.