Manual:Short URL/IIS6

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To Windows User who MUST use IIS servers,

IIS 5.x/IIS 6.0
IIS 5.x and 6.0 do not possess built-in rewrite yet. This means MediaWiki/IIS end-users shall continue to see ugly URLs (and not Apache's Short URL.)  An (extremely short) list of IIS ISAPIs that supports or adds rewrite capability.


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ISAPI Rewrite 3 now looks to support Apache mod_rewrite syntax inside a .htaccess file. This means that many (if not all) of the guides here for Apache servers using mod_rewrite can work on IIS 5.x and 6.0 without having to modify the code at all if you have ISAPI rewrite 3 installed on your Windows server.

IIS 7.0
Just recently, IIS 7.0 now support rewrite capabilities. (Note: If you accomplish this installation, please edit this Short URL for IIS7 page.)