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Question: What is ISAPI Rewrite?
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Answer:
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 is an ISAPI filter written in pure C/C++ so it is extremely fast. ISAPI_Rewrite gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme. ISAPI Rewrite is included free of charge with the Advanced plan, but on our other hosting plans ISAPI Rewrite can be purchased as an add-on for $5 per month.
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.
- Create dynamic host-header based sites using a single physical site.
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- Author: Redalto Support
- Created on: 09 Nov 2006
- Views: 2110
- Last modified: 25 Apr 2008
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