Posted: 10 August 2008 at 11:23am | IP Logged

I need to be able to rewrite these seo friendly urls so that they are sent to the relevant category or product handler, each within their own unique folder, using the product or category friendly name as the id used by the handler program. (Note the category has a further sub folder)

/folder1/category/friendlyname.asp to /folder1/category/category.asp?url=friendlyname.asp 

/folder1/productname.asp to folder1/product.asp?url=productname.asp

I would then duplicate the rules for each of the different folders folder1, folder2 etc etc

Please help of the rules

Posted: 11 August 2008 at 8:10am | IP Logged

Further to this, I forgot to mention that the product or category name, would be deduced, by calculating the full length of the url, then subtracting the website name and folder to end up with just the product part of the url.

Is this sort of thing possible?

Posted: 11 August 2008 at 12:29pm | IP Logged

Thanks Lexey, so do these rules, pick the category name?

E.g. http://www.mywebsite/folder1/category/health.asp

In this example I would want the health.asp part rewriting to real file as below

http://www.mywebsite/folder1/category/category.asp?health.asp

The reason why I ask, I saw in the isapi V3 documnetation that there is a map function that lets you map urls to id's.

Posted: 12 August 2008 at 12:01pm | IP Logged

Thanks Lexey

Final part of my jigsaw, is to allow the product redirect to occur in the same folder as the category.

I am going to apply individual rules for each of the sub folders folder1, folder2 as per below

RewriteRule (/folder1/category/)([^/?.]+\.asp) $1category.asp\?url=$2 [I,L] 

But I think the second rules may not work, unless I exclude the match if it finds a further sub folder. So I need a rule that rewrites this

http://www.mywebsite/folder1/productname.asp

So I presume I would need something like

RewriteRule (/folder1/)(?!category)(productname/)([^/?.]+\.asp) $1product.asp\?url=$2 [I,L]