How to enable SEO URLs with ISAPI

[Jennifer Marx]

I just upgraded successfully to 7.0.2. I am on a Windows server and I use ISAPI (successfully) to rewrite my URLs, but I'm having troubles using it to rewrite the PhotoPost URLs. When I turn on SEO spider-friendly urls (in Global Options), my links to image pages (showphoto.php) stop working.

Things I've done:
- Copied all the information from HTACCESS into my httpd.ini file
- Put the httpd.ini file into my /photos directory, where my PhotoPost installation is located (also tried keeping it in the root directory)
- Put the information at the top of my httpd.ini file

Not sure what to try next. Any ideas?

[Chuck S]

Well I do not know if I can tell you where the rewrite urls for sure go but you would need to copy the htaccess contents I beleive into your ISAPI manager and then restart your server. At least thats what I see on the net. Your windows host would know best where the contents of our htaccess file should go into the windows setup to make it work.

[Jennifer Marx]

Thanks. I spoke to my Windows server host and I was told that I "would need to modify the request codes and place them in the httpd.ini file in the root of the site."

So what would the rewrite code for the PhotoPost urls be if the httpd.ini file has to be placed in the root?

[Chuck S]

that would all depend on what your host means. I do not beleive our htaccess files should be modified in any way.

Your windows host should be able to assist there.

[Jennifer Marx]

I do have to modify the code placed in the httpd.ini file in order for this to work -- ISAPI 2.x simply will not recognize the code if it is anywhere other than the root. I had to tell ISAPI to look in my photos directory. After hunting about, it turned out to be simply replacing the ^ symbol in the provided code with my directory name (/photos/), like so:

RewriteRule /photos/(.*)/p([0-9]+)-(.*)-cpage([0-9+]).html$ /photos/showphoto.php?photo=$2&cpage=$4 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/(.*)/p([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ /photos/showphoto.php?photo=$2 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/(.*)/p([0-9]+).html$ /photos/showphoto.php?photo=$2 [L]

RewriteRule /photos/g([0-9]+)-(.*)-page([0-9]+).html$ /photos/showgallery.php?cat=$1&page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/g([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ /photos/showgallery.php?cat=$1 [L]

RewriteRule /photos/(.*)/index([0-9]+)-([0-9]+).html$ /photos/index.php?cat=$2&page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/(.*)/index([0-9]+).html$ /photos/index.php?cat=$2 [L]

RewriteRule /photos/m([0-9]+)-(.*)-protype([0-9]+).html$ /photos/member.php?uid=$1&protype=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/m([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ /photos/member.php?uid=$1 [L]

RewriteRule /photos/board.html$ /photos/board.php [L]
RewriteRule /photos/b([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ /photos/board.php?msg=$1 [L]

RewriteRule /photos/u([0-9]+)-(.*)-cat([0-9]+).html$ /photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=$1&cat=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/u([0-9]+)-(.*)-cat([0-9]+)-page([0-9]+).html$ /photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=$1&cat=$3&page=$4 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/u([0-9]+)-(.*)-page([0-9]+).html$ /photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=$1&page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/u([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ /photos/showgallery.php?ppuser=$1 [L]

RewriteRule /photos/s([0-9]+)-(.*)-page([0-9]+).html$ /photos/showmembers.php?cat=$1&page=$3 [L]
RewriteRule /photos/s([0-9]+)-(.*).html$ /photos/showmembers.php?cat=$1 [L]

It's working perfectly now.

[Chuck S]

yep your host running a windows server would know more the specifics on the windows needs.

In Linux you can set htaccess through any level.

Glad you got it sorted