URL rewrite module runs with any kind of applications. But using of FastCGI module with URL rewriter ensures that the REQUEST_URI server variable will be set to contain the original URL before it was rewritten. This server variable used by many PHP apps to figure out the original URL, and from the rewrite...

Could you add more details on what does not work? Also could you share the ISAPI_Rewrite rules that work?

I do not think there is a need for those rewrite rules at all. They do not change the requested URL; they are used just to prevent execution of last rule if any resource from those directories was requested. Take for example this rule: RewriteRule ^/images/(.*)$ /images/$1 [L] When requested URL path...

From these ISAPI_REWRITE rules it looks like you need to rewrite http://myurl.org/foo/bar to http://myurl.org/index.php?/foo/bar only if foo/bar does not exist as a static file or directory on a file system. If so, then I think you should be able to define this logic by using just one rewrite rule: <rule...