Posted: 05 June 2010 at 10:31pm | IP Logged

My company has a piece of customer software that runs off of Filemaker pro. we recently had a Help module installed that when clicked, brings up a help menu in an internet browser. Some areas of the software bring you to specific areas of this help module using the following type of URL - HTTP://MyAddress.com/faq.html#Q1

Once you click on that link, the browser opens at in the address bar, the URL converts to UTF-8 and fails to open the page (this happens on Apple Computers in our office only). The URL looks like the following: HTTP://MyAddress.com/faq.html%23Q1

How do I use ISAPI_Rewrite to rewrite the URL so that it opens the requested URL correctly? Thank you.

Posted: 07 June 2010 at 9:03am | IP Logged

1) Yes, using ISAPI Rewrite 2

2) I'm a newbie at this. I have IIS configured but how do I integrate ISAPI rewrite 2 with IIS 6. What are the steps?

3) The reason I need ISAPIE Rewrite is because of the following. See link below.

http://help.filemaker.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5555

The problem only occurs on Macs on the network I am managing. So, this rewrite will hopefully resolve the issue in displaying this URL that is generated from FileMaker Pro.

Posted: 07 June 2010 at 9:34am | IP Logged

Thanks Anton. Now, for the real world situation. Can you do the rewrite for the following URL. I just don't want to get confused with the prior example.

I need http://10.1.1.2/webhelp/PropertyManager_CSH.htm%231000

Rewritten to:

http://10.1.1.2/webhelp/PropertyManager_CSH.htm#1000 where 1000 is the variable. It could be #1001, #1002, etc.

Posted: 08 June 2010 at 3:01pm | IP Logged

Anton - I need help again

Instead of a number parameter, we are going to use a text parameter like the URL below. How do we rewrite this URL?

http://10.1.1.2/webhelp/PropertyManager_CSH.htm%23AdministerPropertyManagerMainMenu

to

http://10.1.1.2/webhelp/PropertyManager_CSH.htm#AdministerPropertyManagerMainMenu

Thanks,