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    Posted: 23 November 2008 at 4:31am
Hello:
      Is there a way to rewrite the URL so that the Forum "Topic" or message "Subject" replaces the special characters in the URL?
 
/forum/default.asp?C=1
/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=1
/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=1
 
Indexing of the forums would work much better.   This would do wonders in Google. 

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Wayne G.
 


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Hi Bruce:
   Since there was not a response to this I assume it is not included functionallity.  Can this post be moved to "Suggestions for Web Wiz"?
 
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URL rewriting is not something that it built into ASP so can not be added as default.

To do this you need to install the ISAPI_Rewrite component on the web server which you can then setup rules to have the URL rewritten on the fly.
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Hi Bruce:
   Thanks for your reply.  I am also using a PHP based CMS on a different server that has a box to tick in the admin that will set the ISAPI ReWrite rules if the ISAPI app is installed on the server.  No ISAPI, just untick the box.  This makes it so very easy to use if ISAPI is installed.  No rules to set up, just load ISAPI and tick the box.   Google really likes the ReWrite results.
 
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You will find this on a PHP board as Apache has a re-write module built in.

ISAPI-rewrite usually requires a custom solution for your server and very few servers have this installed.

Our own hosted solutions do have the full version of ISAPI_Rewrite installed on our servers.
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Hi Bruce:
Thanks for the additional clarification.  Does that mean that a built-in ISAPI ReWrite solution would work on your servers or ones configured like yours?
 
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To be able to use ISAPI_Rewrite you need to have the component installed on the server.

We have the paid full version of ISAPI_Rewrite installed on our own servers, but you would need to check with your web host to see if they have this component installed on their servers.

To use ISAPI_Rewrite you need to make a file which contains rules specific to your site and setup. Then when a page is called ISAPI-_Rewrite will change the URL at ISAPI filter level within IIS and issue a 302 redirect to the calling browser so that the URL will be re-written.
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Hi Bruce:
Could you add the file that contains the rule to the core package and add a tick box in admin to activate if ISAPI is installed?  I do have it on my dedicated windows server.
 
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