Updates on mod_rewrite plus other things.
Posted by Michael Dale on Fri, 27 Aug 2004 4:37 PMI'm currently waiting for the google bot to index this site and I'm very much hoping it does as that was the main reason for adding mod_rewrite. Quite a funky little module if you ask me.
Oh something random,
I was starting my computer (as you do) and as grub (my boot loader) appeared. I thought I had pressed the up key and started Linux (fedora) by mistake. I was very pissed off as I'd HAVE to restart my computer. I can't stand Fedora in its current state (the installed version on my computer). Too much crap installed and just feels well wrong. So that is my Linux bashing for today. Now time for some Microsoft bashing...
I don't think I could ever use IIS even if for some strange reason I wanted too. The main problem is the lack of htaccess support. You cannot configure different folders with an htaccess file to set permissions and settings. So like passwords, mod_rewrite etc etc. Although the school proxy (MS proxy version 2 no less) is making my site _very_ slow. It works much faster through iis. GRR. So I COULD run IIS on another port but it wouldn't do mod_rewrite or pass worded stuff. Bah! Pain.
Oh a useful link for people who want Service Pack 2 on CD:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/sp2/cdorder/en_us/default.mspx
I'm off to cruise the UNIs tomorrow. I think I'm looking at Sydney and UTS. Should be interesting. 20 days left of school or something. 54 days until the HSC.
Certain people who wear blue shirts need to learn how to use FTP otherwise I will disconnect their site :@
LDAP is just an active directory protocol... I don't think it needs to be used for any particular thing.
Google it?
Oh sure you can get rewrite functions for iis. For example:
http://www.isapirewrite.com/
But again the free version only does one site (no virtual hosts) plus I'm sure the configuration for it would be different to apache. So just things working together isn't really going to happen.
Windows mainly uses NTLM for authentication stuff. I thought LDAP was for email stuff.
I'm sure you can configure webs in IIS to support mod_rewrite and whatever else... sure, it wouldn't go by that name, and most probably not be interoperable with alternative products, but still... it has to be doable.
Probably _requires_ LDAP or whatever the equivalent is at the minute for an authentication backend (NTLM? LDAP? What's it called?!?! -- I've been a Linux user for too long).
http://www.rudedog.org/pipermail/auth_ldap/2001-March/043121.html
you can use it with htaccess, but i'm unsure how (as was that person, it seems)