Windows Server IIS URL Rewrite - IP Content Redirection Cycle Problem

[xtech]

Hi everybody :smile:

I am facing a problem setting up FURLS in my community. I have Managed to get friendly URLS across all the board. Nevertheless whenever i try to access IP Content page (let's say index.html), i get a redirection cycle.

Here's my Web.Config file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <httpErrors existingResponse="Auto" />
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url=".(jpeg|jpg|gif|png)$" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="/public/404.php" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="Imported Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="." ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="/index.php" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WWWless" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)$" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www.)(.*)$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="http://forumusica.com{PATH_INFO}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="IP Canonicalization (IP Hit)" enabled="false" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="(.*)" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="HTTP_HOST" pattern="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (my IP)" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="http://xxxxxxxxx.com (my address)" />
                </rule>

                <rule name="RedirectUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^index.php$" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="^POST$" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^([^=&amp;]+)$" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Redirect" url="{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="RewriteUserFriendlyURL1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^([^/]+)/?$" />
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?{R:1}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
        <httpRedirect enabled="false" httpResponseStatus="Permanent" />
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>

At the FURL features in ACP i have the following definitions:

Redirect to new friendly URL format -> YES

URL Type -> Query String

Use .htaccess mod_rewrite -> NO

The problem is, the board works fine, i have managed to get pretty clean URLS, but i if access http://mysite.com/index.php?/page/index.html i get a redirect loop.

Can you help me?

[xtech]

Well... figured out that using the Helicon Ape to use the .htaccess in IIS would be the best choice. I set up the ACP defs as following:

Redirect to new friendly URL format -> YES

URL Type -> Path Info

Use .htaccess mod_rewrite -> YES

It works really well!
Thumbs up for Helicon Ape :thumbsup: