Help with enabling SEO PRO for IIS 5

[xensome]

I installed Ionics Isapi Rewrite Filter as per installation instructions,but still get 'Page cannot be found' after enabling SEO PRO.
Installation readme says to place the settings file (IsapiRewrite4.ini) in the same directory as the DLL file(IsapiRewrite4.dll),but I don't quite understand which exactly ini file should I choose.There are a lot of them under 'test' subfolder(each one for it's own case).I guess it should be exactly for Elxis CMS but again I don't know which one.


Thanks a lot.

[datahell]

htaccess will not work on IIS. You need to have the same functionality for IIS with the ISAPI filter as you would do with htaccess and Apache.
IIS is a commercial web server and therefore not officially supported by Elxis. You should consider IIRF manual/help on how to set up URL rewrite.
Link: http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF
Note this sample for Joomla, I think it will help you a lot: http://iirf.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Joomla

[xensome]

The syntax of .htaccess and IsapiRewrite4.ini looks quite similar,so I tried to copy/paste default .htaccess that came with elxis into IsapiRewrite4.ini but it doesn't seem to work.See log below.
Can somebody help me out to convert .htaccess into IsapiRewrite4.ini ?

Thanks for all your help.


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Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: setting LogLevel to 2
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: WARNING: line 5: Ignoring line: 'RewriteEngine'
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: WARNING: line 7: Ignoring line: 'RewriteBase'
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line   9: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}                                !mylang=[arabic|armenian|bosnian|creole|croatian|danish|dutch|english|french|german|greek|hebrew|indonesian|italian|japanese|latvian|lithuanian|persian|polish|romanian|russian|serbian|spanish|srpski|turkish|vietnamese]{2,}
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  19: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([en]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=english'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 19: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  20: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([fr]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=french'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 20: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  21: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([de]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=german'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 21: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  22: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([el]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=greek'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 22: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  23: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([he]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=hebrew'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 23: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  24: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([id]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=indonesian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 24: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  25: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([it]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=italian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 25: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  26: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([ja]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=japanese'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 26: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  27: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([lv]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=latvian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 27: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  28: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([lt]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=lithuanian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 28: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  29: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([fa]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=persian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 29: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  30: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([pl]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=polish'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 30: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  31: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([ro]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=romanian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 31: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  32: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([ru]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=russian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 32: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  33: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^(sr)/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=serbian'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 33: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  34: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([es]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=spanish'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 34: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  35: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^(rs)/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=srpski'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 35: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  36: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^(

{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=turkish'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 36: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  37: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^([vi]{2})/(.*)$'  '/index.php?mylang=vietnamese'  [QSA,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported modifier flag 'QSA' on RewriteRule
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 37: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  39: RewriteRule (rule 1)  '^(administrator/|bridges/|cache/|components/|editor/|help/|images/|includes/|language/|mambots/|media/|modules/|templates/|tmpr/)'  '-'      [L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  41: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}                            !-f                                       
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  42: RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME}                            !-d                                       
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  43: RewriteRule (rule 2)  '^(.*)'  'index.php'   (null)
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  45: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}                                mosConfig_[a-zA-Z_]{1,21}(=|\%3D)         
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  46: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}                                (\<|%3C).*script.*(\>|%3E)               
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: unsupported RewriteCond modifier flag 'NC'
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  47: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}                                GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})             
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  48: RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING}                                _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})           
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: line  49: RewriteRule (rule 3)  '^(.*)$'  'index.php'    [F,L]
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - WARNING: Redundant modifier flags - F,L
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: ERROR: line 49: invalid modifiers, Ignoring that rule.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - ReadConfig: Done reading, found 2 rules (27 errors, 3 warnings) on 50 lines

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Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - Initialize: Ionic ISAPI Rewriting Filter (IIRF) v1.2.15 final R3
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - Initialize: config file 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\IIRF\IsapiRewrite4.ini'
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - Initialize: File watcher thread created.
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5500 - GetFilterVersion
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  2960 - DllMain THREAD_DETACH
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  4012 - DllMain THREAD_DETACH
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  5660 - DllMain THREAD_DETACH
Wed Jun 10 14:52:35 -  4420 - DllMain THREAD_DETACH
Wed Jun 10 14:53:06 -  2924 - DllMain THREAD_DETACH

[datahell]

First make htaccess file smaller. Remove languages you dont need. If you have only one language published you can remove anything language related. Remove the Security rules in the bottom of the file. Remove comments. You will get a smaller and fully functional htaccess file. Then try to make a IIS version of that file.


Here is a sample:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !mylang=[english|greek]{2,}
RewriteRule ^([en]{2})/(.*)$ /index.php?mylang=english [QSA,L]
RewriteRule ^([el]{2})/(.*)$ /index.php?mylang=greek [QSA,L]

RewriteRule ^(administrator/|bridges/|cache/|components/|editor/|help/|images/|includes/|language/|mambots/|media/|modules/|templates/|tmpr/) - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php


You can even use a tiny version like the one bellow to get started:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php