ProdUCt overview
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.
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.
- Make your Intranet servers to be accessible from the Internet by using only one Internet server with a very flexible permissions and security options.
- Create dynamic host-header based sites using a single physical site.
- Create virtual directory structure of the site hiding physical files and extensions. This also helps moving from one technology to another.
- Return a browser-dependent content even for static files.
And many other problems could be solved with the power of the regular expression engine built into the ISAPI_Rewrite.
ISAPI_Rewrite is available in two different versions:
ISAPI_Rewrite Full
This is complete version of ISAPI_Rewrite. It has the following features:
- Regular expressions-based URL rewriting engine.
- Support for global per-server configuration file
- Support for per-virtual-site configuration files
- In-memory configurations cache
- Automatic deletion of rarely-used configurations from memory
- Monitoring of configuration files and metabase changes and dynamic configuration reload
ISAPI_Rewrite Full is distributed as try-before-you-buy. You can download a 30-day trial copy for free.
ISAPI_Rewrite Lite
This is simplified edition of ISAPI_Rewrite. It does not support per-virtual-site configurations, proxiing, metabase monitoring and automatic cache cleanup but all other features are supported. ISAPI_Rewrite Lite is completely FREE! It may be an ideal solution for the server hosting the only site, development or testing purposes.