Yay, after an hour or so of more work on trying to get the ASP.net rewrite engine demo that I got working I finally managed to sort it. There are a few problems that I am not too happy about though. For a start any URL you want to rewrite has to end in .aspx so that the aspx engine kicks in. I guess I should have seen that coming.
I have a few other problems, one of which I emailed my web host about. I am waiting for them to get back to me as I write this. Hopefully some rewriting will be possible soon though in a site that I will actually make use of it.
I was also looking into alternatives though. The best seems to be ISAPI Rewrite http://www.isapirewrite.com which looks really good and lets you use regular expressions which I began to train myself up on. However at a $70 price tag I don’t think my webhost will be installing it unless I pay for it and the free lite version only supports entire server configurations which would not be usable for me.
Still, pick your battles, I managed to get the basic rewrite engine working so hurray!
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