anyone know how to convert
RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewrieRule ^(bootstrap.php|robots.txt|favicon.ico|images) - [PT,L] RewriteRule ^application(.*)$ - [F,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ bootstrap.php/?page=$1 [PT,L]
Into something iis can read.
I highly recommend you look into the software ISAPI Rewrite by Helicon Tech. You can keep your .htaccess file for Apache virtually unchanged (not everything is supported), but it's like 90% there. What you've pasted I think would work. I've used it on a site after developing in Linux and placing it live on an IIS server. Works well there.
Otherwise, you're only other option is to convert your .htaccess rules to the IIS default rules. It's about $100.00 but worth it in my opinion.
Nahh not paying $100 for something so simple just to put the project on the uni provided web server, i'll just rent some cheep server space.