Excellent advice Jeff - went into the Helicon Manager (start > all programs > helicon > isapi_rewrite3 > isapi_rewrite manager, copied and pasted the code from the farcry wiki (option B): http://docs.farcrycms.org/display/FCDEV50/Friendly+URLs only amendment I had to make was to remove the top and bottom <virtualhost> </virtualhost> parts as Im using the Lite version of isapi_rewrite3, went back into my farcry demo site and hey presto :)
B On Jul 6, 11:44 pm, Jeff Coughlin <[email protected]> wrote: > B, > > Any config settings for Friendly URLs from with the webtop config area > are deprecated and in fact ignored by FarCry (as of FarCry 5.1). The > config settings should have been removed by now (an oversight most > likely). > > I'm not sure about the 64-bit version of the ReWrite plugin software > (if it requires any special steps), but make sure that you are > applying your config settings to the main config (from with the > ReWrite's manager software) and not under the config for the website. > Unfortunately I've never been able to get it to work if I place the > settings under the config for the specific website's config file (I'm > sure it's possible. If anyone figures out a way to make it work, let > me know (or post it in the wiki)). > > Regards, > > -- > Jeff Coughlin > Web Application Developerhttp://jeffcoughlin.com > > On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:45 PM, BazD wrote: > > > > > Hi folks > > > Im liking Farcry v5 a lot, its a neat little CMS, its just getting > > better and better with each release! > > > I chose the standalone installation on my local development machine > > (to emulate the live setup of a shared server), so inside my c: > > \inetpub > > \wwwroot folder, I have the project files and a folder for /farcry etc > > > I can access the demo site viahttp://localhost/demoand farcry admin > >http://localhost/demo/farcryfor example > > > The part Im stuck on is getting friendly URLs to start > > > Ive download and installed Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite3_0064_Lite_x64.msi > > > Within the IIS website entry for the project, I can see 2 entries in > > the ISAPI Filters section: > > > ISAPI_Rewrite_32 > > and > > ISAPI_Rewrite_x64 > > > Ive logged in /farcry admin and created the friendly URLs and also, > > within admin > config > friendly URL config, set Domains to "demo", > > URL pattern left as "/go/", Suffix left as "no", and blank for > > everything else. > > > Ive read something about testing existence of friendly URLs by adding > > pingFU to the browser URL, ie.http://localhost/pingFU, but all I get > > is an IIS page error 404 "the directory or file specified does not > > exist on the web server" > > > Im obviously missing something, if anyone can offer any help, it would > > be much appreciated > > > Thanks > > B --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message cos you are subscribed to "farcry-dev" Google group. To post, email: [email protected] To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] For more options: http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev -------------------------------- Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/farcry -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
