ISAPI_Rewrite

ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache’s mod_Rewrite, but is designed specifically for Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS).  ISAPI_Rewrite gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme.

What you can do with ISAPI_Rewrite:

• Optimize your dynamic content like forums or e-stores to be indexed by a popular search engines.
• Block hot linking of your data files by other sites.
• Develop a custom authorization scheme and manage access to the static files using custom scripts and database.
• Proxy content of one site into directory on another site.
• Make your Intranet servers to be accessible from the Internet by using only one Internet server with a very flexible permissions and security options.
• Create dynamic host-header based sites using a single physical site.
• Create virtual directory structure of the site hiding physical files and extensions. This also helps moving from one technology to another.
• Return a browser-dependent content even for static files.

And many other problems could be solved with the power of the regular expression engine built into the ISAPI_Rewrite.

ISAPI_Rewrite is available in two different versions:

ISAPI_Rewrite Full

This is complete version of ISAPI_Rewrite. It has the following features:

• Regular expressions-based URL rewriting engine.
• Support for global per-server configuration file
• Support for per-virtual-site configuration files
• In-memory configurations cache
• Automatic deletion of rarely-used configurations from memory
• Monitoring of configuration files and metabase changes and dynamic configuration reload

ISAPI_Rewrite Full is distributed as try-before-you-buy. You can download a 30-day trial copy for free.

ISAPI_Rewrite Lite

This is simplified edition of ISAPI_Rewrite. It does not support per-virtual-site configurations, proxiing, metabase monitoring and automatic cache cleanup but all other features are supported.

ISAPI_Rewrite Lite is completely FREE! It may be an ideal solution for the server hosting the only site, development or testing purposes.

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