.htaccess - Mod_rewrite in Azure

Question

I was write simple .htaccess and test it on Windows Azure Web Sites, but mod_rewrite didn't work there. Why? How I can reconfigurate my Azure?

RewriteEngine on AddDefaultCharset utf-8

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule ^test.html$ test.php?%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Answer 1

.htaccess file is not recognizible by Azure Web Sites.

Azure Web Sites run on Microsoft IIS.

IIS has a URL Rewrite module, very similar to mod_rewrite for Apache. You can configure URL Rewrite rules by having a web.config file in your site root folder.

Follow the Creating Rewrite Rules article and scroll down to the "View the rule in Config file" to get an idea what it looks like.

Your rules defined, will look like this in web.config (and will most probably work as expected):

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url="^test.html$" ignoreCase="false" />
            <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                <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="test.php?{QUERY_STRING}" appendQueryString="false" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>