Title: ISAPI_Rewrite – Help
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# ISAPI_Rewrite – Help

 *  [robertem](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robertem/)
 * (@robertem)
 * [19 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isapi_rewrite-help/)
 * Hello,
 * I am trying to make my blog search engine friendly and have been told that I 
   can do this using ISAPI_Rewrite on my Windows based hosting.
 * Originally (before I knew that I couldn’t use mod_rewrite), I was told to upload
   a .htaccess file that contains:
    # BEGIN WordPress
 * RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond%{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
 * # END WordPress
 * I posted this on the Helicon forum hoping that they could give me the ISAPI_Rewrite
   equivelant and was told:
    Unfortunately this part cannot be translated directly-
 * # BEGIN WordPress
 * RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond%{
   REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
 * # END WordPress
 * Current version of ISAPI_Rewrite cannot check for file existance. You can try
   to translate these rules by finding some common for all URLs that need to be 
   rewritten and writing a rule based on this mark.
 * Can someone please tell me how I can make this work? Please keep in mind that
   I am a novice.
 * Thank you for your time,
 * Robert

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 *  [steve2507](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steve2507/)
 * (@steve2507)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isapi_rewrite-help/#post-546065)
 * Hi,
 * Have you been able to fix this yet as I am having the same problems?
 * Thanks
 * Steve

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/isapi_rewrite-help/#post-546065)
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