Managed Fusion URL Rewriter is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on the Apache mod_rewrite extension. It is designed, from the ground up to bring all the features of Apache mod_rewrite to IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0. Managed Fusion Url Rewriter works with ASP.NET on Microsoft's Internet Information Server (IIS) 6.0 and Mono XPS Server and is fully supported, for all languages, in IIS 7.0, including ASP.NET and PHP. Managed Fusion Url Rewriter gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme.
URL Rewriter provides websites with the ability to replace your querystring into short, memorable and meaningful links. One of the great advantage by using this tool, is that your web site becomes totally search engine friendly which means higher page ranking from the search engines.
URL rewriting is the process of intercepting an incoming Web request and redirecting or rewrite the request to a different resource. When performing URL rewriting, the requested URL is validated and the request is redirected to a different URL. Proper URL rewriter components such as Managed Fusion Url Rewriter will completely mask the original URL so the clean URL will always be exposed to the client.
Advantages
- Developed by my company but unlimited FREE use for everybody.
- Full .NET 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 support.
- Full support for IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 (including integrated pipelines).
- Fully functional Proxy and Reverse Proxy integrated in at no extra cost.
- Full support for Mono XPS, and the integrated Visual Studio Web Development Server, two things that ISAPI_Rewrite and Ionic Rewriter cannot claim.
- Create short URLs that are easy for your users to remember.
- Structure your site for search engine readability.
- Hide the implementation of your URL from the URL that is displayed to the user.
- Provides easy implementation for standardizing your website to help in SEO efforts.
- Block hot linking of your sites content, very useful for sites that steal your images and consume your bandwidth for their gain.
- Proxy content of one site into directory on another site.
- Create a gateway server that brings together all your companies proprietary web application under one standardized schema through the proxy feature.
- Create dynamic host-header based sites using a single physical site.
- Change your ASP.NET file extensions to other extensions (i.e. .html). This also helps in migrating old CGI technology to ASP.NET, without changing your URL structure.
- Return a browser-dependent content even for static files.
How does it work?
Url Rewriter works as HttpModule for ASP.NET Web Applications. Redirections and rewrites are managed by rules created in a configuration file in plain text using Apache mod_rewrite syntax that is determined using regular expressions.
When the request is made for the new friendly URL, Url Rewrite tries to find a match of the virtual URL against the rules and if successful, it redirects or rewrites the request to the original URL. Rewrites are made server-side so the users will never see again your complex and hackable URL.
Unlike other existing URL rewriting process, Managed Fusion Url Rewrite is entirely masking the old URL so ASP.NET Form Postbacks are fully supported by this component and it uses the common Apache mod_rewrite syntax that is so popular with PHP, Cold Fusion, and Ruby.