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When I ran WP on a Windows host, the biggest frustration I had was that so many WP hacks required .htaccess. I don't know for sure if there's a market out there for a Windows .htaccess emulator, but I'd bet there's a lot of Windows shared hosting users that would love to see their hosts provide one.

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AFAIK, .htaccess files are strictly for Apache web servers - if you're even using lighttpd or nginx, you're pretty much boned.

That's why I said emulator. I should have searched before posting, but apparently there is already at least one product on the market that does this (Helicon Ape).

I think what I did, when I was using lighttpd with Wordpress, was to look at the .htaccess files that were being used, then translate them (by hand) to lighttpd rules. It requires a bit of expertise in both Apache and in whatever web server you're using, but it's another solution to consider if you're looking to "use" .htaccess files.

Are you looking strictly for mod_rewrite syntax support in IIS?

http://www.isapirewrite.com/

More here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/60857/mod-rewrite-equival...

IIS7 has a URL rewriting module ("URL Rewrite") that can import mod_rewrite rules. For the most part .htaccess and web.config can provide the same functionality these days.

There is a product called (I believe) ASAPII which interprets .htaccess files for IIS hosts. We have successfully used it to run Wordpress on Windows for certain clients.

IIRF is a good replacement for htaccess on a windows server. http://www.codeplex.com/iirf

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