The IIS team at Microsoft has released another set of updated IIS Extensions this month, including the final RTW version of URL Rewriter. These Extensions offer additional functionality for IIS 7.0 while being fully supported and integrated with Windows Server and IIS. Learn more about IIS Extensions.
URL Rewriter enables Web server administrators to create powerful rules to implement URLs that are easier for users to remember and easier for search engines to find. By using rule templates, rewrite maps and other functionality integrated into IIS Manager, administrators can easily set up rules to define URL rewriting behaviour based on HTTP headers and server variables, or to perform redirects, send custom responses, or stop HTTP requests based on the logic expressed in the rewrite rules. URL Rewriter offers many benefits, including:
- Easily define rules that match URLs or HTTP headers to generate more friendly and consistent URLs
- Protect content and assets from unauthorized linking and scanning
- Integrate with existing IIS features to improve management, performance and troubleshooting
Some of you may already have this functionality via ISPAI_REWRITE from Helicon Tech, which is based on MOD_REWRITE for Apache, and in fact version 3 now uses the MOD_REWRITE .htaccess file format so that settings are easily transferable between systems. So if you are already using this then the URL Rewriter extension may pale in comparison, after all it is only the first release, but for those looking for a quick, simple and most of all FREE solution for URL rewriting, then the URL Rewriter extension for IIS7 may be just the ticket.
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