Routing on IIS servers via .htaccess

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I suspect i already know the answer to this or more accurately no answer to it.
I run two servers in the office, one LInux and one Windows server 2012 dataserver running IIS 8 with PHP installed

So here is the configuration issue

I need to develop for a Linux PHP target but develop on the IIS 8.

All works ok except routing for obvious reasons.

Obviously it is a pain to have to import rules over to iis from the htaccess manually. Anyone know of a way of getting IIS to automatically import them or better actually obey them?

Hoping someone out there may know of some clever server patch that may help

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Obvious question so I’m sure you’ve already considered it but would you be better installing WAMP and running Apache on your Windows PC for development?

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Why do you need to develop on IIS? Makes no sense if I am honest.. Especially when it takes a few minutes to spin up another server running Apache and have none of the issues you are experiencing.... Why make so much work for yourself?

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Thanks Dave but if it was that simple i wouldn't need to ask the question. Yes, just using the office lamp stack which i use for most PHP dev work would be much easier but that was not the question, The reason is basically about integration, i need access to multiple technologies and this would be easier than writing a load of APIs to bridge server technologies, this is my only road block to just using IIS

So back to the question:

Anyone know of a way of getting IIS to automatically import them or better actually obey them?

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Maybe this can help, looks like IIS has a conversion tool:

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Sadly that is IIS 7

My IIS 8 setup does not have the import rules option (don’t know why)

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Oh man that is a bummer Brian :frowning:

Sorry I can’t help mate. Maybe hit Stack Overflow and post there? Usually have an answer by the time it takes to brew a cuppa.

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Having looked all day, finally found a tutorial based on IIS 8 and it appear this may be a server config issue, Looks like i should have an import option but seem to be missing the entire inbound rules section with the URL Rewrite module so maybe its a group policy issue. Will investigate that direction

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