Posted: 07 August 2006 at 9:33am | IP Logged

My hosting provider has installed the full version of ISAPI_Rewrite but I am really stumped as to how to get it to work.

Anything I put in my httpd.ini simply causes the whole site to return a 404 error. If I turn on SEF URLS in Joomla I can see the front page, and static URLS, but they are all broken.

I am a newbie and this concept. My eyes glaze over when I look at all the rewrite rules. Is there any global setting that would do some sort of default rewrite?

Is there a clear, SIMPLE example I could follow along with?

Thanks,

Mike

Posted: 07 August 2006 at 10:18am | IP Logged

"That is hardly possible. Show rules those you are using. "

Hi,

I'm glad to hear yout think it's hardly possible. I'd be happy to be wrong about the whole thing...

This is the contents of the httpd.ini file in my site's root directory, The Jomla installation is also in the root directory.

Here are the contents:

[ISAPI_Rewrite]

# This is a comment

# 300 = 5 minutes
CacheClockRate 300
RepeatLimit 20

# Rules for Joomla! search engine friendly URLS
RewriteCond Host: www\.thedecisioncoach\.com
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/\?(.*) /?$1&$2

RewriteCond Host: www\.thedecisioncoach\.com
RewriteRule ^/(.*)/ /?$1

# Block external access to the httpd.ini and httpd.parse.errors files
RewriteRule /httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors) / [F,I,O]

# Block external access to the Helper ISAPI Extension
RewriteRule .*\.isrwhlp / [F,I,O]

# Some custom rules
RewriteCond Host: (.+)
RewriteRule (.*) /$1$2

Posted: 07 August 2006 at 11:27am | IP Logged

"Please, explain what those rules should do. 1st and 2nd look too generic. I guess they could rewrite much more than really needed."

Hi,

I have no idea. I was looking around forums and someone posted this example and said it would work.

This is massive amount of coding that I don't understand so I was just looking for some way to have some sort of global rewrite.

I will say that when I remove httpd.ini completley and simplly set search engine friendly URLS to "yes" in Joomla, I get what look like search engine friendly URLs but they are all broken links.

-Mike

Posted: 07 August 2006 at 12:01pm | IP Logged

"Almost all rewrite rules are application-specific. There is no universal "silver bullet" that could work in any case.
Sorry, I do not know how to help you if you can not describe transformations those you need."

What do you mean by application specific?

To be as specific as I can be, I have several links coming off of the front page.

Like, for example, down the side of my pages are these links:

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=section&id=1&Itemid=2

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=blogsection&id=0&Itemid=9

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=category&sectionid=3&id=7&Itemid=25

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_contact &Itemid=3

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_search& amp;Itemid=5

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_newsfee ds&Itemid=7

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper &Itemid=8

What would I do to make these "static"?

Do I need a seperate rule for every page I create?

Please bear with me- I am a total newbie and I'm just not getting this yet.

-Mike Davis

Posted: 07 August 2006 at 12:25pm | IP Logged

"And how these links look when you enable "search-engine-friendly URLs"?"

Hi,
They look like this: (I have incuded the original first then the SEF one below it.)

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=section&id=1&Itemid=2
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/section/1/2/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=blogsection&id=0&Itemid=9
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/blogsection/0/9/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_content &task=category&sectionid=3&id=7&Itemid=25
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/category/3/7/25/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_weblink s&Itemid=23
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_weblink s/Itemid,23/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_contact &Itemid=3
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_contact /Itemid,3/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_search& amp;Itemid=5
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_search/ Itemid,5/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_newsfee ds&Itemid=7
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_newsfee ds/Itemid,7/

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper &Itemid=8
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_wrapper /Itemid,8/

Posted: 08 August 2006 at 10:13am | IP Logged

Hi,

Thanks for this answer. However, The links are all still breaking.

This is what my httpd.ini file now looks like. Is this correct?

[ISAPI_Rewrite]

# This is a comment

# 300 = 5 minutes
CacheClockRate 300
RepeatLimit 20

# Block external access to the httpd.ini and httpd.parse.errors files
RewriteRule /httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors) / [F,I,O]

# Block external access to the Helper ISAPI Extension
RewriteRule .*\.isrwhlp / [F,I,O]

# Rewrite Rules from the Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite Support Forum

RewriteRule /content/(\w+)/(\d+)/(\d+) /index.php\?option=content&task=$1&id=$2&ItemId= $3 [I,L]
RewriteRule /component(\?[^/]*)?/([^,]*),([^/]*)(.*) /component(?1$1&:\?)$2=$3$4 [NS,I]
RewriteRule /component(\?[^/]*)?/? /index.php$1 [I,L]

Posted: 08 August 2006 at 3:22pm | IP Logged

OK, FYI the SEF links with the commas in them are now working like:

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_wrapper /Itemid,8/

but the ones with just the directory paths like

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/section/1/2/

are still broken

Here are all the log records from today:

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0#Version: 1.0#Date: 2006-08-08 19:57:17#Fields: date time cs-method cs-uri-stem c-ip cs-version cs(User-Agent) cs(Referer) sc-status sc-bytes 2006-08-08 19:57:17 GET /templates/be2004-2/images/content_bg.png 71.250.15.80 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_weblink s/catid,2/Itemid,26/ 404

Posted: 09 August 2006 at 2:31pm | IP Logged

Hi,

Sorry about that. Like I keep saying this is really not making much sense to me. I did not know what you were looking for so I posted just part one day's logs in hopes you'd see what you are looking for. I will post a few lines and *hope* it's what you were asking for. I have turned off the SEF URLS at this point so nothing should be a static address. If this isn't enough info, is there a way to attach a larger section of the log file?

-Mike

#Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
#Version: 1.0
#Date: 2006-08-09 17:47:29
#Fields: date time cs-method cs-uri-stem c-ip cs-version cs(User-Agent) cs(Referer) sc-status sc-bytes
006-08-09 17:47:30 GET /templates/be2004-2/images/content_bg.png 70.111.204.85 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com 404 1830
2006-08-09 17:47:30 GET /templates/be2004-2/images/arrow.gif 70.111.204.85 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com 404 1830
2006-08-09 17:47:30 GET /templates/be2004-2/images/left_bar_bg2.jpg 70.111.204.85 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com 200 1637
2006-08-09 17:47:30 GET /templates/be2004-2/images/search_bg.png 70.111.204.85 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com 200 530
2006-08-09 17:47:30 GET /templates/be2004-2/images/read.gif 70.111.204.85 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com 404 1830
2006-08-09 17:47:30 GET /images/stories/food/coffee.jpg 70.111.204.85 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+SV1;+.NET +CLR+2.0.50215;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.thedecisioncoach.com 200 0

Thanks,

Mike

Posted: 11 August 2006 at 3:28pm | IP Logged

Hi.

Specifically,

The URLS with commas in them work, the ones without do not. Here are the list of links (there aren't many) and I have notated whether or not they work.

From the main menu:

http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_frontpa ge/Itemid,1/ WORKS
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/section/1/2/ 404 ERROR
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/blogsection/0/9/ 404 ERROR
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/category/3/7/25/ 404 ERROR
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_contact /Itemid,3/ WORKS
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_search/ Itemid,5/ WORKS
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/component/option,com_weblink s/catid,2/Itemid,26/ WORKS
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/section/4/31/ 404 ERROR
http://www.thedecisioncoach.com/content/section/2/36/ 404 ERROR

Thanks,

Mike

Posted: 14 August 2006 at 3:36pm | IP Logged

Hi,

Does this pattern of which links work help?