URL Rewrite - IIS Authentication

   
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About Mod_Rewrite | Documentation | Examples | New Features | Performance
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URL Rewrite Filter for IIS

Powered by regular expressions, Mod Rewrite is an URL rewrite engine made to help webmasters gain control over the way Mircrosoft's IIS handles URLs.

Mod Rewrite is placed between IIS and the HTTP requests made to the web server, giving it the ability to manage URLs before they are processed.

Advantages of Mod Rewrite

Search Engine Optimization

In today's market, information is everything, people is always in search for information and search engines are being used in order to find that information. Almost 80% of the sales generated on the internet are referred by search engines.

Don't loose the opportunity to be indexed because your URLs are full with query strings. With Mod Rewrite you can make those pages search engine frienldy and easier to index, give it a try, we're sure you are going to see the difference.

Security

Do you remember IIS's bug ::$DATA about 4 years ago? there was a bug found in IIS making it possible for anyone on the internet to attach ::$DATA to the URL and get the source code of the file.

Imagine for a moment someone makes this request "/global.asp::$DATA" on your server and the server instead of sending an user unauthorized request, it sends the file as plain text, would you like people seeing what's on your global.asa?

With Mod Rewrite you can protect your web server for malicious URLs. Just create a rule to scan incoming requests for global.asa and send the request to /denied.asp. So simple would it be: RewriteRule ^/global.asa /denied.htm

Usability

From a visitor's point of view, friendly URLs are easier to remember, read, and give a better understanding of your website's structure.

For a great explanation of URL usability please read Jesse James Garrett's article about URL usability

For installation instructions and some configuration examples please read the documentation.

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Mod Rewrite has been tested for compatibility with:

- Windows NT 4 Server
- Windows 2000 Server
- Windows XP Pro
- Windows 2003 Server

Make your site search engine friendly and ...


- Increase Referrals
- Increase Traffic
- Increase Sales

New on Mod Rewrite
- High Performance!
- RewriteRule options
- RewriteCond options

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