ASP.NET Blog software? (search engine friendly)

"Tips" <see_reply-to_address (AT) nospam (DOT) invalid> wrote:

Does anyone know of good ASP or ASP.NET blog software?

It should have:
* clean URLs
* search engine friendly (sends correct headers, etc.)
* not extremely complicated to configure
* customizable design/template

Doesn't need to be free, but open-source is preferred. It will go in
a subdirectory on an existing site on IIS.

WordPress can run on IIS with clean URLs, but I'm looking for
something that isn't too unconvetional or complicated.

Why is WP unconventional/complicated? (WP would have been my first
suggestion).

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"Tips" <see_reply-to_address (AT) nospam (DOT) invalid> wrote:

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"Tips" <see_reply-to_address (AT) nospam (DOT) invalid> wrote:

WordPress can run on IIS with clean URLs, but I'm looking for
something that isn't too unconvetional or complicated.

Why is WP unconventional/complicated? (WP would have been my first
suggestion).

WordPress is the ideal solution, but it would be running on IIS which
doesn't have mod_rewrite.

Reordered:

The URLs don't look good, but could probably be fixed with isapi
rewrite.

This is wat is used for WP as well:

There is a workaround, but the author calls it "non-trivial":
http://www.basilv.com/psd/blog/2006/...s-20-under-iis

Yup, non-trivial as it took him a few hours to find it out. But from a
quick glance, following this recipe will give a running WP 2.0.x in about
20 minutes.

I'm not working directly on the server, but just providing
recommendations to the sites' developers.
I'm not sure if they would have trouble getting WordPress running on
IIS with clean URLs.

WordPress could be put on an Apache server on a subdomain, but in this
case the blog has to go in a directory on the main domain...

If IIS can do proxying like Apache, with some overhead you can have IIS
fetch the page from the Apache server and pass it to the browser appearing
to come from IIS directly.

I found Presstopia, but don't know much about it:
http://presstopia.com/pt/blog/

Nor do I, I have most experience with WP, my partner uses it, and a
customer does use it on several sites.

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Does anyone know of good ASP or ASP.NET blog software?

It should have:
* clean URLs
* search engine friendly (sends correct headers, etc.)
* not extremely complicated to configure
* customizable design/template

Doesn't need to be free, but open-source is preferred. It will go in a
subdirectory on an existing site on IIS.

WordPress can run on IIS with clean URLs, but I'm looking for something that
isn't too unconvetional or complicated.

"John Bokma" <john (AT) castleamber (DOT) com> wrote

"Tips" <see_reply-to_address (AT) nospam (DOT) invalid> wrote:

WordPress can run on IIS with clean URLs, but I'm looking for
something that isn't too unconvetional or complicated.

Why is WP unconventional/complicated? (WP would have been my first
suggestion).

WordPress is the ideal solution, but it would be running on IIS which
doesn't have mod_rewrite.

There is a workaround, but the author calls it "non-trivial":
http://www.basilv.com/psd/blog/2006/...s-20-under-iis

I'm not working directly on the server, but just providing recommendations
to the sites' developers.
I'm not sure if they would have trouble getting WordPress running on IIS
with clean URLs.

WordPress could be put on an Apache server on a subdomain, but in this case
the blog has to go in a directory on the main domain...

I found Presstopia, but don't know much about it:
http://presstopia.com/pt/blog/

The URLs don't look good, but could probably be fixed with isapi rewrite.

John Bokma wrote:

This is wat is used for WP as well:

There is a workaround, but the author calls it "non-trivial":
http://www.basilv.com/psd/blog/2006/...s-20-under-iis

Yup, non-trivial as it took him a few hours to find it out. But from a
quick glance, following this recipe will give a running WP 2.0.x in about
20 minutes.

I'm sure it's not extremely difficult, but I don't have hands-on access to
the server, and I'm not sure they would be able to do it. I think it is
going to be a regular problem though so I might try a test run on my
computer.

If IIS can do proxying like Apache, with some overhead you can have IIS
fetch the page from the Apache server and pass it to the browser appearing
to come from IIS directly.

Interesting idea. Will look into it.

I found Presstopia, but don't know much about it:
http://presstopia.com/pt/blog/

Nor do I, I have most experience with WP, my partner uses it, and a
customer does use it on several sites.

WordPress is great. Very well designed and search engines love it...

I have another question about SEO and TypePad, but I'll start a new thread.