Rewriting Message board URL's to the topic name

Hi all,

Can anyone tell me if Discountasp.net server will support this kind of rewrite;


For example the URL name for a certain topic is:

abc.com/bbs/topic.asp?TID=6

and we wish to change to whatever the topic written is, to something like;

abc.com/bbs/bad-news-somali-pirates-strike-again/


Any advice much appreciated.

Thanks
Anthony

 

Hi Eric


Thanks for the reply, can you give me a bit more information though that I can give to our programmer? Do we need to buy the new space for this?


thanks


Anthony

 

Anthony,

If you have an account with us, you should check what hosting platform you are on. We offer two platforms. One is Windows 2003 which runs the IIS 6, and the other is Windows 2008 which runs IIS 7. This has the URL rewrite module. Here's a link to Microsoft with documentation to IIS 7 URL Rewrite Module. http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/...d-load-balancing-and-powershell-cmd-lets.aspx

rcp
DiscountASP.NET
www.DiscountASP.NET

 

We just finished migrating to the 2008, IIS 7.0 server so that we can do URL rewriting. I searched the knowledge base already and didnt find anything on this. My programmer cannot find where he can edit the rewrite, since he cannot log onto the server. He needs to know where he can go to edit it.

An example of what we want to rewrite is: http://www.freightforum.com/bbs/topic.asp?TID=6

Where topic.asp?TID=6

That will change to the topic threadname with hyphens between the words.

Thanks for any guidance you guys can provide!

Anthony

 

Thanks to Eric, rcp, and Bruce! We will try that!