IIS 7.0

URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7

URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The Microsoft URL Rewrite Module 1.1 for IIS 7 provides flexible rules-based rewrite engine that can be used to perform broad spectrum of URL manipulation tasks, including, but not limited to: Enabling user friendly and search engine friendly URL with dynamic web applications; Rewriting URL’s based on HTTP headers and server variables; Web site content handling; …

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URL Rewrite Module – Released To Web

The IIS team has made the URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Release To Web (RTW) available for download. This is a final, production-ready release that is officially supported by Microsoft. Overview URL rewrite module provides a rule-based rewriting mechanism for changing requested URL’s before they get processed by web server. The module can be used to express URL rewriting logic that can use regular expressions or wildcards and can make rewriting decisions based on …

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Apache Emulation on IIS 7.0

Stumpled across a interesting new module for IIS 7.0: Helicon APE (APache Emulation) by Helicon Tech, currently in beta and available for download. Helicon Ape is a unique module that emulates Apache execution environment on Microsoft IIS. It literally implements Apache configuration model (like .htaccess and httpd.conf files) and all most demanded Apache modules in a single IIS add-on, not only making IIS compatible with Apache, but also extending it’s functionality by a number of …

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URLScan 3.1 Released

About a week ago, the IIS Team released an updated version 3.1 of the URLScan tool. If you are running ver. 3.0, it’s recommended that you upgrade to URLScan 3.1. URLScan is the tool to protect your websites against SQL Injection Attacks, the new version is updated to handle new variation of attacks. Our internal security team brought it to our attention that they’d seen a new variation on the attacks.  This new variation is …

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WordPress URL Rewrite on IIS 7.0

Found this special ISAPI “WordPress URL Rewrite”, it’s a free ISAPI application for IIS 7.0. The features are: Can run with multiple WordPress installations in an IIS Web Site (for example: / and /MyBlog/) Has a configurable path Exceptions list (for example: defining /Forum as an exception would prevent any pages in this folder from being re-written) Works with IIS 5.0, 5.1 and 6.0 Works with WordPress 2.0 or higher Easy to setup, easy to …

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