mod_rewrite on fasthosts.

Hello there kind people.

I've installed Wordpress here http://www.trsmithroofing.co.uk/flat_roof_blog and I've noticed that URL re-writes are working nicely.

Here's an example of one. http://trsmithroofing.co.uk/flat_roof_blog/index.php/2010/10/single-garage-flat-roof/

Knowing this works, I'm wondering why I cannot get re-writes to work on the same server... I have a simple rule which I can get working on my local host, but when I try it out 'live' it doesn't work...

Here's the rule I've got

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule retest-choice-(.*)\.htm$ retest.php?choice=$1

On a localhost I can navigate to retest-choice-1.htm and it will correctly request retest.php?choice=1 It just won't work on the fasthosts account.

I've been struggling with this for a long time, but now I know Wordpress has managed to get it working, I'm asking if anyone can explain how so that I can use the same method. Thanks in advance, you guys on Stack overflow have yet to fail me.

Shane

That makes sense :) So, I guess my overall answer is that rewrites are disabled on my fasthosts accounts. How would I go about enabling it?

shane 2010-10-23 14:17:37

From http headers I can see server runs **Microsoft-IIS/6.0** not Apache, so you can't rewrite urls using `htaccess`

dev-null-dweller 2010-10-23 14:33:46

Thanks very much. This has solved my long-standing issue. :) Thanks for taking the time to help.

shane 2010-10-23 15:47:29

I've switched to a linux operating system. Hopefully this will make life a little easier :)

shane 2010-10-23 15:50:57

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