WordPress 3.0.1 Install on MS IIS v6 Web Server

Question

Hi,

Have just installed WordPress 3.0.1 running on MS IIS 6 Windows Server that I developed from my Mac OS X platform.

Pls note that my WordPress setup is under the following directory sructure:

c:\inetpub\wwwroot\MYSITE

The problem here is though, with the site up and running, it can't seem to find any of my pages like "About Us" even though I have set them up correctly within the permalinks side of things.

Am getting "HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. Internet Information Services (IIS)"

Is it something to do with permalinks/.htaccess file not working on MS II6?

Really unsure how to fix.

Thanks.

Answer 1

.htaccess files are for Apache HTTPD. They don't work with IIS. For IIS you need to create a "Web.config" file and add the following lines to it.

<rewrite>
    <rules>
        <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true">
            <match url=".*" />
            <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
            </conditions>
            <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
        </rule>
    </rules>
</rewrite>

DOESN'T WORK IN IIS6:

As Kev points out, this code doesn't work in IIS6. From a little googling I understand that URL rewriting is not at all possible with IIS6. If anyone knows another way, please update here.

POSSIBLE ALTERNATIVE FOR IIS6?

Is it possible to use ISAPI_Rewrite or UrlRewriter.NET in this situation? Can someone clarify on this?