CodeIgniter WITHOUT rewrite engine

[eluser]skunkbad[/eluser]
[quote author="Yours3lf" date="1272413990"]I've done some search and I got this:

you can pass-by the rewrite engine by calling php's header function and validating $_SERVER variables, so, with this my is working now

for example:

Code:

<?php
if(stristr($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], '/some-directory/')){
header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
header("Location: http://www.my-website.com/--address from$_SERVER variables--");
}
?>

[/quote]

This seems really cheesy. You'd probably have the best success with rewrite help on a windows server forum. Actually.... and I don't mean to steer anyone away from this forum... but you might ask about getting the rewrite working over at phpfreaks.com. They even have a Microsoft IIS board