Re: how to get rid of /index.php/ in short URLs (dirty hack for now) [repost]

In article <Xns93A5E49F21Fmdhalbrookyahoocom-eZa9WL4uNvhcfrQTZ11X7Q@public.gmane.org>, Michael Halbrook <[email protected]> wrote:
>Chris Dudley <[email protected]> wrote in news:pan.2003.05.12.12.51.33.905998
>@xaraya.com:
>
>> Some of this might end up being configurable, if there's enough
>> interest for this URL hack :)
>
>Maybe it's just me, but I'd think that if you're after short URLs then you 
>wouldn't want index.php to show up :)  
>
>Now the question is, and it doesn't really matter to me, since I won't 
>touch IIS as a hosting server, can the same be done in IIS? (The short URLS 
>& OR this hack)

The short URLs, yes.

Getting rid of the index.php, perhaps - I haven't tried that yet, but probably
with some customisation of the default mapping and/or with the mod_rewrite
equivalents for IIS you could handle that too. That'll be for someone else
to figure out though, because I'm not familiar enough with IIS for that :-)

Mike.