url-rewriting

I need the Url Rewrite module on my IIS But it does not install and says that I need at least IIS7 the newer version supports win10 out of the box: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47337 Boas Enkler Because it took me hours to find the problem, I am posting this solution to my own answer so it will save someone else this work. In short you have to change the major version of the IIS via the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\InetStp\MajorVersion to 9 during installation and then back to 10 afterwards. Solution is from: https://forums.iis.net/t/1223556

Alright, so let's say I'm writing a forum application, and I want pretty URLs. However, all my tables use numeric IDs, so I'm not sure the best way to format the URLs for those resources. Let's pretend I'm trying to get a topic with ID 123456 and title This is a forum post . I've seen it done a couple ways: www.example.com/topic/123456 www.example.com/topic/this-is-a-forum-post www.example.com/topic/123456/this-is-a-forum-post Which one would you say is, taking all things into consideration (including SEO), the optimal URL? Sorry if this question is too vague, but it seems programming-related

Sorry for noob question, can't understand from what I should search. I'm making a site with that page product.php?id=777 I'd like it to be product/777 Thank you! Create .htaccess file in your web root and enter following there: Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^product/([0-9]+)$ product.php?id=$1 Instead of using mod_rewrite you can also use following in your .htaccess: DefaultType application/x-httpd-php And just name your script product on the server (without .php file extension). So you can invoke it directly and would receive any appended string as $_SERVER["PATH_INFO"]