Rewrite URL and IIS6

[magictrick]

I am running 2.7.6 and wish to "remove" the index.php prefix which is inserted into the path for all of my web pages as it breaks the site when running IE6 (I know it's ancient but there are still some users!). All other browser versions are fine.

I have checked "Rewrite URLs" and renamed ._htaccess to .htaccess but this has made no difference. Is this just a fact of life under Windows/IIS or is there something else I can do to remove this?

Thanks

Mike

[xchs]

Hi magictrick,

...as it breaks the site when running IE6

The "index.php" URL fragment breaks the website in IE6 browsers? Strange! Never heard about such an "issue"...

I have checked "Rewrite URLs" and renamed ._htaccess to .htaccess but this has made no difference.

Have you set the right "RewriteBase" in your server configuration file ".htaccess"?

[magictrick]

This is the currrent contents of .htaccess

##
# Rewrite base
##
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /

##
# Block malicious requests
##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} (ftp|https?):|/etc/ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (ftp|https?):|/etc/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

##
# Compress .js and .css files
##
AddEncoding gzip .gz
<FilesMatch "\.js\.gz$">
AddType "text/javascript" .gz
</FilesMatch>
<FilesMatch "\.css\.gz$">
AddType "text/css" .gz
</FilesMatch>
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-encoding} gzip
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} \.(js|css)$
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}.gz -f
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1.gz [QSA,L]

##
# Rewrite TYPOlight URLs
##
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .*\.html$ index.php [L]


What do I need to check?

Thanks for reply

Mike

[xchs]

If your domain is mapped to Contao's installation directory (i.e. the root/main directory of the installation) then

RewriteBase /

is correct. Otherwise you have to set here the right directory as RewriteBase.

[magictrick]

I installed TL into a virtual directory /TEX2011, so I have amended .htaccess ReWriteBase to /TEX2011 but the index.php part still appears in the name and IE6 still doesn't show the complete page.

I can see that the html is correct and complete if I view source it's just not rendered to the screen, I'm pretty convinced it's the index.php/ part that's causing it because the homepage for the site displays correctly.

Mike

[xchs]

Hi, since I have no experience with Windows web servers, I do not know exactly how the URL rewriting mechanism work there. You have to check the server configuration if there is available and enabled the corresponding URL Rewrite Module (equivalent to Apache's "mod_rewrite" module). Maybe a filter called "ISAPI_Rewrite" (or similar)...

Unfortunatly, I can not say more (due for lack of experience with IIS)

[Ruud]

I happen to have solved this problem with TYPOlight on an IIS server. First off; IIS does no rewriting of its own. Or at least not that I know of, so just changing the .htaccess and the rewrite switch will not help you much!

You need to install an isapi module for that. I used Ionic's Isapi Rewrite Filter. When you have that filter installed (follow their instructions) then you need to construct a version of the .htaccess file that the rewriter will understand (it will not use the existing .htaccess files)

The file I made is called IsapiRewrite4.ini:

# IsapiRewrite4.ini
#
# TYPOlight Rewrite URL
#
 
#RewriteLogLevel 5
RewriteRule ^(/?index\.php.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/?preview\.php.*)$ $1 [L]
RewriteRule ^(/?)(.*\.html)$ $1index.php/$2 [L]

#RewriteRule (.*css)$ $1 [I,L]
#RewriteRule (.*xml)$ $1 [I,L]
#RewriteRule (.*js)$ $1 [I,L]
#RewriteRule ^/(?!index.php)(?!tl_files)(?!system)(?!plugins)(?!templates)(?!typolight)(?!contao)(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [I,L]

There are no guarantees that my file will work, but at least it gives you an almost complete method as to how to get this working!

ps, also I am not sure what IIS server I did this on. That means that this method might only work for some IIS versions. Additionally; it was for an earlier TYPOlight version so the htaccess for contao may have changed. I did include contao into the rules I posted above.