Comments on: IIS 7 URL Rewrite Module support in WordPress 2.8

By: michell

michell — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:10:58 +0000

Hi sir,

I am getting a 404 error whenever i changed the permalink of my site. Do you know why that might be? I meet all the requirements

php 5.2.13(Fast CGI Application)
iis 7
url rewrite 2.0
wordpress : 3.1

When i update my permalink it will not suggest any code to me. Even manually i created the web.config file and put the code then it gives the 505 error.
Is there any solution for this? Thank you.

By: sagar

sagar — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:36:09 +0000

Hi ruslany,
I used following things

IIS : 7
Php : 5.2 (Fast CGI Application)
wordpress : 3.1
URL Rewrite Module v2.0 RC

my permalink is default. And i want use the structure base permalink. I install all the require module which you define above. But when i update the permalink like(/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/) but it will not suggest the web.config code as you shown. And i tried to put manually in the web.config file but it gives 404 error.
plz help me what i have to do for this

or any other solutions for this problem.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:50:30 +0000

Hi Franklin, I do not think it is necessary because as far as I remember the FastCGI update included a fix for this problem.

By: Franklin Tse

Franklin Tse — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:02:39 +0000

Hi Ruslany,

A WordPress Trac ticket was created attempting to fix how IIS FastCGI handles the REQUEST_URI server variable with non-ASCII characters. Is that necessary? Would you mind reviewing the patch?

https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/18987

Thanks,
Franklin

By: ruslany

ruslany — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:11:44 +0000

Hi Mark, it looks like the index.php is not added as a default document in iis. Try adding it as described in this post.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 11:35:55 +0000

Hey,

first of all, I searched for all kind of permalinks solutions and this seems to be the only one working, many many many thanks ruslany!!
However: I’ve the same problem as stated above (Oliver): everything works perfect, except the homepage it works when i put index.php behind it. I don’t really understand the solution, explaining it in simple words would be so awesome. Many thanks in advance!!

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:48:15 +0000

Hi Oliver, it’s great that you’ve figured it out. Although I am getting HTTP 500 on your site at the moment .

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:30:15 +0000

Ok ignore all past posts… very sorry. I have now found a soloution.

I have just copied all the code from the example on this page into my web.config file

http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/557/translate-htaccess-content-to-iis-webconfig/

Thanks again for asking the right question to get me thinking.

Great site by the way!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 09:41:09 +0000

Hello again,

Sorry to keep posting you can probably partly ignore the above posts. I may have misunderstood what you ment.

Where can I set the default document type for this site, without it affecting the other sites I have hosted. Do I add a line of code to the web.config file or do I log into the server and go to IIS Manager –> Default Document

At this stage I’m really not sure what I’m doing, but I don’t want to cause issues to my other sites. Thanks again.

By: ruslany

ruslany — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 06:24:11 +0000

Hi Oli,

If I request http://www.cccit.co.uk/news/index.php then it serves the page. It looks to me that the default document setting is not setup. I am not sure which web server you have, but if it is IIS then you need to add index.php to the list of default documents.