Best URL Rewrite Web Hosting

URL Rewrite Introduction

In short, URL rewirte is to generate clean website URLs for better management and SEO. Mostly you would like to make long URLs short and dynamic urls to be static. As for URL rewrite engine, the most popular would be mod_rewrite with Apache web server and Rewrite module on IIS web server.

What's URL rewrite web hosting? Means the hosting server is compatible with your URL rewrite rules and ideally they will provide guidance on how to make full use of this advantage with their service.

Best URL rewrite web hosting

Best web hosting for URL rewrite support goes to Arvixe LLC. They created web servers with latest server production and leading technologies and fully compatible with asp.net and php scripting. You can upload your rewrite rules directly to hosting space and it will be working fine

How does URL Rewrite work?

Normally a specific resource can be accessed via multiple ways. If you have defined some URL rewrite rules for your website urls then once the website address is requested from client end the URL rewrite module will convert it to a URL that you pre-defined.

Why URL rewrite?

URL rewrite will clean your web URLs and let people easier to remember. More important, it's quite search engine friendly. For people who's doing SEO, URL rewrite is a must when they optimize your website. So basically, as long as your like your website to be known by many people on internet you should use url rewrite technologies.

URL rewrite rules for wordpress

Wordpress url rewrite should be used most frequently by people since wordpress itself is being used more and more and has default url rewrite settings. But wordpress rewrite rules are quite different under different web servers. Here I'd like to post the rules under Apache web server and IIS web server.

Wordpress url rewrite under IIS6 can be done via a 404 error page and it's the best way so far, code below:

<?
$qs = $_SERVER[‘QUERY_STRING’];
$pos = strrpos($qs, '://');
$pos = strpos($qs, '/', $pos + 4);
$_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’] = substr($qs, $pos);
$_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’] = $_SERVER[‘REQUEST_URI’];
include('index.php');
?>

Under IIS7 web server, as long as the url rewrite module is installed and allow custom override, you only apply the "permalinks" directly from wordpress admin, the final codes generated is the following:

<system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard">
          <match url="*"/>
          <conditions>
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
             <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
</system.webServer>

The Rules under apache server is the cleanest comparing to IIS settings and you don't have to pre-define it. it will automatically generated to .htaccess file. The final rules like the below:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Since I get many requests from people who's using IIS7 & IIS8 hosting for wordpress and ask how to make the url rewrite working. I just post the codes above. To reduce the time for the trouble shooting, you should find a qualified hosting provider who can support url rewirte. For IIS7 hosting with url rewirte support. We highly recommend Arvixe, arvixe IIS7/8 hosting is fully url rewirte compatible, you can define the rules as you like as long as it's correct.

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