IIS - rewriterules for the advanced mod rewrite

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

I've installed your pre-modded forum here http://www.herbalistsguide.com/forum/index.php This is a new forum and a new install.

The server is 2003 64bit but running in 32bit emulation to accommodate legacy software.
ISAPI_Rewrite has been updated 3.1.0 .56
There are 34 other phpbb forums we host, all working properly
Mysql is 5.0.45

The installation seemed to go fine and the url appears to be re written (http://www.herbalistsguide.com/forum/your-first-forum-f2/) but I get a 404 error.

After spending several hours in your forum I see that the general diagnosis is rewrite error.

I have tried a number of combinations offered by this forum and by .htaccess in the admin panel. I have tried loading in the forum folder and have tried loading in the root folder. I have tried with virtual root on and with virtual root off.

I am using ISAPI_Rewrite3 and this is my current httpd.ini attempt

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

Re installed the package with no error popups except for Isapi_rewrite

dcz

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

Thank you very much for your efforts, I appreciate that

Unfortunately I'm still getting a 404 error and I have included a screenshot for you to evaluate. Helicon seems to be making use of the .htaccess file in Apache compatibility mode. And so we have done away with the httpd.ini file.

I have included the directory structure and as you can see the .htaccess file is loaded in the root.

As you can also see from the screen shot; using regex I am still getting a pattern match not found error.

Your seomod phpbb 3 package was reloaded yesterday afternoon and the installation again went as smoothly as a normal phpbb installation. Are there some additional steps that we need to take that we have missed?

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

This ended up being the one that worked. After upgrading to ISAPI 3.0.56 for Apache rewrite compatability, and struggling with this for days, it turned out that leaving a blank httpd.ini file in the root folder in addition to the .htaccess file made it work for us.

[code# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.56

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

# Rewrite Rules - Advanced

# Forum Index
RewriteRule ^forum.html/\$ /forum/index.php [QSA,L,NC]

# Forum
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /forum/viewforum.php?f=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

# Topic With Virtual Folder
RewriteRule ^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?f=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]

# Global Announces With Virtual Folder
RewriteRule ^announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?t=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

# Topic Without Forum Id & Delimiter
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]*)/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?forum_uri=$1&t=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]

# Profiles Simple
RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

# User Messages Simple
RewriteRule ^member([0-9]+)-(topics|posts)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/search.php?author_id=$1&sr=$2&start=$4 [QSA,L,NC]

# Group Simple
RewriteRule ^group([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=group&g=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

# Post
RewriteRule ^post([0-9]+)\.html$ /forum/viewtopic.php?p=$1 [QSA,L,NC]

# Active Topics
RewriteRule ^active-topics(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/search.php?search_id=active_topics&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]

# Unanswered Topics
RewriteRule ^unanswered(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/search.php?search_id=unanswered&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]

# New Posts
RewriteRule ^newposts(-([0-9]+))?\.html$ /forum/search.php?search_id=newposts&start=$2&sr=topics [QSA,L,NC]

# The Team
RewriteRule ^the-team\.html$ /forum/memberlist.php?mode=leaders [QSA,L,NC]

# Forum Without Id & Delimiter
# These Three Lines Must Be Located At The End Of Your Htaccess To Work Properly
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^([a-z0-9_-]+)/?(page([0-9]+)\.html)?$ /forum/viewforum.php?forum_uri=$1&start=$3 [QSA,L,NC]

<Helicon>
</Helicon>[/code]

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

Here is a snippet of the log file from Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3

(1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
(1) Htaccess process request c:\inetpub\082-herbalist\.htaccess
(3) applying pattern '^/httpd(?:\.ini|\.parse\.errors).*$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^.*\.isrwhlp$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^forum\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^/forum[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^[a-z0-9_-]*-f([0-9]+)/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^announces/[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^([a-z0-9_-]*)/?[a-z0-9_-]*-t([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^member([0-9]+)\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^member([0-9]+)-(topics|posts)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^group([0-9]+)(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^post([0-9]+)\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^active-topics(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^unanswered(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^newposts(-([0-9]+))?\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^the-team\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^([a-z0-9_-]+)(-([0-9]+))\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'
(3) applying pattern '^([a-z0-9_-]+)\.html$' to uri 'forum/index.php'

As you can see everything was being encoded to' forum/index.php' which then returned an error.

Hopefuully this will be helpful

dcz

Have you tried only with the httpd.ini I suggested (no .htaccess or compatibility mode) ?

In your last .htaccess :

Drew · Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 22 Location: raleigh nc

We tried first with httpd.ini but in the end we upgraded from 3.0.039 to 3.1.056 and used .htaccess

You are correct that the rule as stated did not work for index.php

we re-wrote it as:

dcz

ho, you must be using the virtual root option then.

You could try the httpd.ini, should work as well if you just replace all occurrences of "^/forum" with "^", eg replace :