Addendum to FarCry and IONIC rewriting
I tried to use IONIC and FarCry. I really did. I spent several days/weeks (eh, I have 5 kids man... I've rather lost track of the exact time) trying to make this filter work the new friendly URLs created by FarCry. The previous blog posting appeared to work, except... several areas of the admin became unworkable. Mostly areas like the library picker. Also, I ran into the odd issue where you'd want to append URL variables not working. Jeff Coughlin and I also posted to the IONIC boards hoping for some assistance (guidance?) but in the end, it's still just broken. Heck, I even tried various version of the filter. In any case, it just never worked 100% and I've since given up.
So, where does that leave us? You can either switch to Apache. Or, you can start using the Helicon rewriting filter. There IS a free version of this filter, BUT... the downside is you're limited to either one website or ALL websites. The per server license for the full blown suite is about $99, but I hate having to pay for this filter for some reason. I'm just cheap, I suppose. Or, maybe it's due to everyone thinking the "ColdFusion" types are already pricey to begin with? At any rate, the free version works for me. Failing that I'm planning to switch to Apache for those cases where I need multiple site support.
I told ya to give me a call and I'd work with ya on this one. Maybe next time heh?
@Michael> I was just simpler to let it go. The speed of relying on Helicon was faster as it was just one rule (as opposed to several that I ended up with for IONIC), and the rules work on both Windows and Linux if you follow the typical Apache syntax. I'd like to move towards all Linux VPS for future work anyway as I'd rather use the server resources towards actual content delivery vs diverting resources to driving windows.
My new sites are all leaning away from Adobe CF and MSSQL server, instead I'm developing my new stuff around Railo and MySQL with some java thrown
in for good measure. The performance on one server increased by 50 percent. Content delivery speeds increased by double and server memory usage
dropped by no less than 300 MB. IONIC entries take a little time getting used to but when you get em down to the science they work very well.
Its probably been said, but these rewriters are deved for windows environs needing rewrite capability.
If your moving to Linux then you will have a full featured rewrite in httpd.