URL rewrite

I am not sure if this is the right Forum to ask this question, but couldn't find one on hosting topics.

Do someone know a web hosting company allowing people to use .htaccess for URL rewrite?

Or is there an other way to do some URL rewrite when you don't host your website on your own server.

Cheers,

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_rewrite.html

if your on an apache server - the link above should help.

but you will need access to the server.

Yep, I have already done that on the servers I am hosting myself (and running on Apache). It looks like it is possible to do that on IIS (example : www.isapirewrite.com/), but never tried yet.

But what about if you are using an external webhosting company to host your website.

Is there then a way to perform URL rewrite on your website or are there webhosting company using Apache servers and allowing the clients to create a .htaccess that can perform url rewrite?

I contacted f2s.com for example. They allow .htaccess, but not the use of RewriteRule in it.

I personally have no idea - any IIS people out there?

What do you need to know about IIS, be working on it for a few years?

Glenn, see above

Just to make sure that my question was clear:

What I would like to know is -
1) Is using .htaccess (or adding the directives to httpd itself) the only way to do a url rewrite on apache servers?

2) If it is not, what are the other ways?

3) If it is, do you know webhosting companies who allow their clients to write url redirect directives in their .htaccess files?

Cheers :smile: