url rewrite / removing index.php on IIS 7

Question

Does anyone have experience doing this on a windows server, running IIS7?

I've got access to the IIS manager, and the URL Rewrite module, but how to setup the rewrite rules, and how should the patterns look?

Ive tried this example, but the auto-generated examples of public url's are no good

http://www.iis.net/learn/extensions/url-rewrite-module/user-friendly-url-rule-template

When inputting:

www.domain.com/index.php/url-title

i only get this option for public url:

www.domain.com/index

No good :)

So i need to make a blank rule, but have no clue how to create the pattern.

Answer 1

Try

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
 <system.webServer>
 <rewrite>
    <rules>
      <rule name="Rewriter" stopProcessing="true">
        <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
        <conditions>
          <add input="{R:1}" pattern="^(index\\.php|images|css|js|favicon\\.ico)" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
          <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
        </conditions>
        <action type="Rewrite" url="./index.php/{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
      </rule>
    </rules>
  </rewrite>
 </system.webServer>
</configuration> 

if you were using an older IIS version with the ISAPI rewrite module then you could do

 RewriteEngine on 
    RewriteCond $1 !^(css|js|swf|images|system|tools|themes|index\.php) [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

where the RewriteCond piped lines are equal to the folders that you don't want to be rewritten.

Certainly this worked on an older IIS version (I now try to avoid IIS where possible).