iirf rewrite url

Question

i'm trying to use iirf for what looks like asimple rewrite but it's not working.
what i need:
rewrite http://www.mydomain.com/ru to : http://www.mydomain.com?page=russian
the objective being that a get param would be sent but the user would see the first url on their browser's url bar.
i'm using the following code:

RewriteEngine ON
StatusUrl /iirfStatus

RewriteRule  http://www.mydomain.com/ru  http://www.mydomain.com?page=russian

1. does this go (the iirf file) on the site's root or in a 'ru' subfolder (tried both)?
2. what am i doing wrong or missing?

thanx and have a nice day :-)

Answer 1

The following should work:

RewriteRule  ^/ru$  /?page=russian [I,L]

You should put this in the iirf.ini file in the web sites root folder.

Check http://www.mydomain.com/iirfStatus to see whether iirf was able to read your configuration file.

Also, you may use RewriteLogLevel with a value of 2 or 3 and RewriteLog to see whether the incoming url was rewritten, and how (or why not).