SEO URL issue

mesharp

Hi im having a weird issue!

Im working on an iis server and the forum works a treat without the .htaccess in place - ie non seo urls.

If i enable it though i loose all styling on the forum as if the stylesheet link is broken.

I am using ISAPI rewrite on the forum which uses a htaccess file in the root of the site.

I have tried changing the rewrite base with no joy. do you have any suggestions on how i might get the seo urls working?

What does this part of the rewrite do?

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

Just so i can make sure it trnslates

Thanks all

Mike

solevangelist

This checks to see whether the URL is an existing File or Directory, and if so, it serves that File or Directory.

There is an equivalent in IIS's URL Rewrite 2.0, which I've written a short blog on here:

Using Vanilla Forums with IIS 7/7.5 and URL Rewrite (http://solutionevangelist.com/discussion/8/using-vanilla-forums-with-iis-77.5-and-url-rewrite)