Rewrite rules not working for CakePHP on IIS

Question

I have been trying to get rewrite rules to work on IIS for CakePHP using the following web.config settings which is in the root folder:

Answer 1

IIS7 does not natively support .htaccess files. While there are add-ons that can add this support, you can also import htaccess rules into IIS to use CakePHP’s native rewrites. To do this, follow these steps:

1.Use Microsoft’s Web Platform Installer to install the URL Rewrite Module 2.0 or download it directly (32-bit / 64-bit).

2.Create a new file in your CakePHP root folder, called web.config.

3.Using Notepad or any XML-safe editor and copy the following code into your new web.config file...