Re: Compatiabilty issues

On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 11:42 +0100, Julian Muscat Doublesin wrote: > Yes - running IIS 7. > > > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Ashley Sheridan > <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 10:27 +0100, Julian Muscat Doublesin > wrote: > > > Hello Everyone, > > > > I am having trouble with the mod_rewrite. This is not working on windows > > 64bit. I am also having trouble with the directory password protection. > > However thse bot work perfectly on my UNIX Mac. > > > > >From my experince I can see that this is due to file system compatibility. > > Can anyone confirm this. You would be of greate help as I am going through > > HELL right now. Can any suggest the best Unix or Linx OS for hosting phph > > websites and MySQL. > > > > Thank you very much in advanace. > > > > > By any chance, are you using IIS on your Windows machine? > > Pretty much most hosting companies offer Linux web-hosting. My > advice would be to try and use a company based in the same > country as you are, because it's nice to be able to contact > them during your hours when something goes wrong. And be ready > to accept that things may go wrong at some point. > > Thanks, > Ash > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk > > > > > That is why mod_rewrite isn't working! IIS doesn't support that. It has something else instead, by a name I forget just now. Afaik, you have to purchase the support for this other bit as an extra module though. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk