Pretty URLs

At work, we are moving to SQL 2008 from SQL 2000.  As part of the move I had to test our Umbraco website against the new server.

So, I copied the contents of our website to the test server, changed the connection strings to point to the new server, and loaded the page.

When clicking on any links, I get a 404 error.

After some investigation, I learned that the issue was with IIS.  Our website uses PrettyURLs.  So if you want the trauma section you would go to www.wvstecs/trauma

The problem is that going to that location was generating a 404, not found error.

The reason is that you have to configure IIS to handle this type of request.  There are two steps.

1. Make sure that you have configured Umbraco to do the pretty URLs by modifying the umbracoUseDirectoryUrls to true in web.cofig
2. Make sure you have added the aspnet_isapi.dll handler to your website (Inetmgr - Home Directory tab, Configuration)

More informaton can be found here.

http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/install-and-setup/setting-up-umbraco-for-friendly-urls