Are you sure the URLs and requests are the same? (both are GET requests, there´s no ending / in the URL etc).

Frederik

I am not sure Frederik.  When i hover over the links, i get the right url, but when i click on it, i get the 404.  So i assume the url rewrite is working.   I am not as familiar with url rewriting as most people are, I will be the first to admit.  I never really had to use it. 

The easiest would be to use a proxy tool like Fiddler to check both requests and inspect them. There has to be a difference between them,

Frederik

Hey Frederik, I know you're a busy man, do you have a sample of a friendly url rewriter.  All i am really trying to accomplish is is to remove the &pageIndex=2 to respect /xxxx/2  and have episerver recognize that there is a querystring of pageIndex.  If not, I totally understand.  I have been trying everything.  I have charles proxy running but as soon as I click "/blog/2"  it instantly redirects to 404 page.  The header show 404.  I apologize for my ignorance on the urlrewriter.

There's been a similar thread in the past that does almost the same thing you need: http://world.episerver.com/Modules/Forum/Pages/Thread.aspx?id=77088&epslanguage=en.

And the code: https://gist.github.com/simplyio/7180218#file-z-routeconfig-cs

You can simplify it more since you only need the paging and not the product.

Frederik

Thanks man.  It is much appreaciate.  I have looked all over and found most of the rewriting articles are for 6r2 or 6 which i know they are handled differently now.  Thanks again frederik.

I think i spoke too soon.  Question, i know routes in global are used for mvc but does webforms hook into that in episerver for paths, or do i have to extend the friendly rewrite provider.  The cross over is a bit of a blurred line for me

Regarding CMS 7 and frindly URL rewriter, this is a good article to read!

http://world.episerver.com/Blogs/Johan-Bjornfot/Dates1/2012/10/EPiServer7--Routing/

I think i have it working 90%.  I have the url rewriting working and the routes working but wondering why i cannot see the values in the request.querystring params.  I am offically confused.  my url is as follows

http://xxx.com/blog/page/4/category/joshua/
my route is as follows

RouteTable.Routes.MapContentRoute(
                    name: "BlogPageAndCategory",
                    url: "/{node}/page/{pageIndex}/category/{category}",
                    defaults: new
                    {
                        pageIndex = UrlParameter.Optional,
                        category = UrlParameter.Optional
                    });

above is from glimpse showing both my params are blank