IIs 6 Friendly URLs

I’ve tried implementing the code for friendly URLs using error pages in the thread http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,634.0.html without luck. Noticed it was last updated 2005. Is this solution compatible with v9.6.1?

IIS and Friendly URL’s are posible, just follow this directions and it should work.

If you’ve got iisrewrite installed, yes, but we don’t. I have investigated iisrewrite with my web host but they’re asking us to sign something. If it mentions anything about posing a security threat to them, my boss will run in the other direction hence I need to know how to get IIs 6 running with 404 pages on the latest version of MODx.

I don’t think you’ll ultimately have much luck with that trick hotdiggity ... I tried it a few times and it wound up causing other problems. I suspect others had the same issue, hence why it probably hasn’t been brought up all that much. I believe it had to do with reporting every page as a 404 to search engines and thus your site becomes effectively invisible to them.

OK thanks - won’t waste my time any further on the 404s then!