mydotnetworld.com — I recently completed a project that needed to have Joomla use SEO friendly URL's on IIS 7. The main goal was to get this to work with Microsoft URL Rewrite Module for IIS 7.0 Go Live. Doing some research I could not find any tutorials on this, or if anyone had succeeded. Joomla is PHP based and Apache friendly and I am a .NET Developer so I hope you felt my pain through this learning process. Joomla has built in SEF (Search Engine Friendly) functionality but works flawlessly on Apache, IIS on the other hand it is a different story. Joomla uses the htaccess file if the website resides on an Apache server. IIS doesn't use the htaccess file and therefore can not get the desired results we want. original link