Rewrite engine is a web server software application which helps us to modify URLs before fetching the requested items.

Rewrite Engine for Apache HTTP server:
“mod_rewrite” – Apache HTTP server has a rewrite engine known as mod_rewrite, which has been described as “the Swiss Army knife of URL manipulation”

Rewrite engines for Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS):

1. IISRewrite from Qwerksoft

2. ISAPI_Rewrite from isapirewrite.com

3. URL Replacer from Motobit

4. Ionic’s ISAPI Rewrite Filter (IIRF) (open source) from Ionic Shade.

Rewrite HttpModule for Microsoft ASP.NET:
“URLRewriting.NET”

Rewrite engine for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Servlet container servers:

1. Apache Tomcat, Resin, Orion etc)

2. HttpRedirectFilter (open source)

3. UrlRewriteFilter (open source) – allows you to rewrite URLs before they get to your Servlets, JSP’s, Struts etc

4. URL Rewriter (open source – LGPL) – URL Rewriter is a tool for rewriting URLs in Java Servlets. It is similar to mod_rewrite

These are the major URL rewriting tools which is used widely.