I had a bit of trouble understanding the concepts of Isapi rewrite and once it was figured out. I thought I would share it.
I wanted a this:
http://www.somesite.com/article/1234
to call the original page
http://www.somesite.com/article.asp?id=1234
This would obviously increase the SEO of the webpages as i could have something meaningful as apposed to something that had 1234 as a querystring.
If your provider has isapi rewrite installed then all you do is upload a file called httpd.ini into the root of your website and put this into the file.
[ISAPI_Rewrite]
RewriteRule /article/(\d+) /article.asp\?id=$1 [I,L]
And then it just works. Very cool. This is obviously the beginning and you can see that this can easily be changed to something like this:
http://www.somesite.com/1 or http://www.somesite.com/xy5R3
which is the beginning of a URL shortening service like http://urls.co.za
Hope that helps.
