ISAPI Rewrite

I'm considering adding the ISAPI Rewrite program to our site and was looking to get feedback on it's usefulness when combined with PC. I want our site to be as search engine friendly as possible and this seems be the easiest way. Thanks in advance for you feedback.

Stuck,

So you are very happy about implimenting ISAPI Rewrite into your site? That is good to hear. How long did it take you to impliment it into PC?

Thanks again.

Stuck,

Thanks for that link. I'm out of the office at the moment but will give it a try when I return.

Thanks again for you help. I appreciate it.

I am also interested in knowing if anyone has gone down the path of implementing ISAPI rewrite.

Regardless of the mod that EI has developed, I'm curious about what strategies are working or otherwise.

We have done an extensive modification to Product Cart to give us nice clean URL's using Helicon Tech ISAPI Rewrite.  We completely rewrite our Category, Product and Content pages.  I know hardly nothing about ISAPI Rewrite but Helicon's support is very good and they will basically write the needed code for you.  It is then up to you to modify Product Cart to read the new URL's.   We simply created a function that converted the new URL's to something Product Cart could read.  Then created another function to rewrite the URL's links shown by Product Cart. 

This makes it very search engine friendly.  Also makes it easy to later move to another technology like .net since our URL's are technology independent.

This would be a very good, and fairly easy, add-on for Product Cart to make as part of their base system.  Much more flexible than outputing static HTML pages.  The performance is great.

Example URL's we use:::

www.domain.com/category/categoryname
www.domain.com/product/productname
www.domain.com/home/contentpage

When we add a Product, Category or Content page we give it a unique name (custom field we created) so that it can be used in the URL.  Great flexibility.

Hope this helps.