Windows Web Server not Linux

[EirianPrice]

Im running a windows web server and migrating accounts from an apache linux enviroment, just very basic ftp stuff.

However, i have just converted a from html to php to make it easier to build new pages and change content, now on the linux server i could have just created a .htaccess file to change all requests to the website that had the .html to automatically change to .php

the reason i want to be able to do this is because there are a lot of link around the internet that have this .html on them and now the link would be .php

does anyone know how i could achieve this in an IIS envoroment???

Cheers
EP

 

[anglian]

There is no .htaccess without apache

You could try something like http://www.isapirewrite.com/
It might work for you


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[EirianPrice]

There is no .htaccess without apache

You could try something like http://www.isapirewrite.com/
It might work for you


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I am here: http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=51.960428,1.350307

I know thats why im trying to find an IIS friendly code

The ISAPI_Rewrite looks like overkill for what im trying to do, instead im just going to have to make a .html page for each page to then redirect to the .php equivalent.

 

[anglian]

I know thats why im trying to find an IIS friendly code

The ISAPI_Rewrite looks like overkill for what im trying to do, instead im just going to have to make a .html page for each page to then redirect to the .php equivalent.

Or just stay with apache
Any particular reason for moving to IIS?

 

[EirianPrice]

Lol, fair point!

The reason im switching is because i know how to fix, maintain and configure Windows, whereas with linux i have only very basic knowledge and if it broke i wouldnt know how to fix it.

I was hosting my websites and customer sites on a shared linux box from a company called simply mail solutions over in warrington but they one day decided to shut down all my site and they couldnt get it working for 6 days!

 

[anglian]

6 Days, Ouch. No way that should happen.
I have been selling hosting and reseller accounts for 12 years and the biggest outage has been 12 hours when a server self destructed and I had to setup a new server and move over 250 accounts to it.
Will your windows server be in your office? If so you might need to check with your provider if they allow this and if there any bandwidth/port restrictions.

 

[EirianPrice]

God no, its a VPS hosted in the UK.

They said that one of the sites which was a worpress site was hacked and so they closed down my whole account, bastards!

went down thursday afternoon, left me with no help over the weekend and only got the sites back up after getting them to send the files on the server which i had to re host elsewhere!

 

[coreyspeed]

This can be done inside IIS you need to get IIS to install php and it will setup and confiure everything for you. if you need any help drop us a pm

 

[EirianPrice]

This can be done inside IIS you need to get IIS to install php and it will setup and confiure everything for you. if you need any help drop us a pm

PHP is installed on the IIS server, but its apache that allows the use of the .htaccess file, isnt it!?

 

[anglian]

PHP is installed on the IIS server, but its apache that allows the use of the .htaccess file, isnt it!?

Yes it is. (message not long enough )