Does Windows IIS 6 come with a Rewrite rule engine?

Question

Hi,

I'm wondering if Win IIS 6 comes with a built-in rewrite rules engine. I've got my website on a webhotel running IIS 6 but I'm unable to find out how to enable/perform simple rewrite operations on urls. I know that previous versions of IIS don't have a rewrite engine which actually seems to be the case also here.

Thanks
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Answer 1

Nope, IIS doesn't have that built in.
Two options
Buy the following addon
http://www.micronovae.com/ModRewrite/ModRewrite.html
or using ISAPI filters (not as good)
http://blog.crowe.co.nz/archive/2005/08/09/193.aspx
http://cheeso.members.winisp.net/IIRf.aspx


Or simply load and run Apache. It works great on Windows and has support for ModRewrite built right in. That is one or the reasons why it is the MOST USED WEB SERVER on the internet even on windows machines!

(Ok, I like OPEN SOURCE I admit it and at least you can mod it!)