I love Apache, if it were up to me the whole Internet would be served from Apache based servers running on a Linux based stack and website would never fall over, code would be clean and World Peace would follow shortly there after.
Unfortunately, we live in the real world and part of this rather shocking wake up call is that we sometimes have to use IIS to serve ColdFusion websites. This isn't so bad, certainly after trying to get PHP stable under Windows Server 2003 and IIS ColdFusion is a doddle to install, stable and pretty much as good as its Nix based sister. But there are some things IIS 6 simply doesn't do well. One of these is
URL rewriting.
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