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Last post 02-01-2009 4:20 AM by laptop-power-battery. 3 replies.

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  • 01-28-2009, 11:03 AM

    • bjawnie
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    IIS settings for URL rewriting without dummy directories?

    Hi,

    I have a client that has a multilingual website at a webhost with very limited access to the IIS. As a result we have been forced to use some very annoying hacks to get our url rewriting to work (we need that for the numerous languages the website supports). It's really a classic. For each rewrite we have we need a dummy directory with a dummy default.aspx file in it.

    For example if we want our url to be http://domain.com/de/hello/ and http://domain.com/uk/hello/ we "physically" need to have the directories de/hello/default.aspx and uk/hello/default.aspx even though the end up serving the same file => hello/default.aspx

    As you can imagine this is a lot or work when there are 30 supported languages. Therefore my question is if it is possible to make a somewhat simple IIS setting change (simple because then hopefully the webhost will allow it) so we can discard the above cumbersome url rewriting hack.

    Hopefully someone understood my somewhat lacking explanation.

    Thanks

    Cheers
    bjawnie
  • 01-28-2009, 12:22 PM In reply to

    Answered Re: IIS settings for URL rewriting without dummy directories?

     IIS up to version 7/windows 2008 doesn't  have any rewriting capablities.

     Try some third party IIS rewrite ISAPIs that may do this for e.g. http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF

  • 01-28-2009, 12:58 PM In reply to

    • Port80
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    Answered Re: IIS settings for URL rewriting without dummy directories?

    We created PageXchanger for this exact purpose.  Check out www.port80software.com/pagexchanger or visit the download section of this site. I think it may cure your headaches :)

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