Comments on: Get WordPress Permalinks Working with Windows, IIS, and ISAPI Rewrite

By: andy

andy — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:30:46 +0000

I'm not 100% sure what you're asking here, but if you're having trouble creating the hidden file, I'd Google showing hidden file types in your version of Windows, then create a file named htaccess.txt in Notepad and rename it in Windows Explorer or launch the command line, cd to the file's directory and run rename htaccess.txt .htaccess

By: apar

apar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:33:01 +0000

hi!
any one can help? how to write .htaccess in iis server to hiding file extension name

By: andy

andy — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:20:59 +0000

@Chris you might want to try putting the rules in the root directory’s .htaccess file. See the comment(s) by @Ash above.

Also, try playing with the RewriteBase directive as well. If your site is working but CSS isn’t then it’s trying to rewrite the CSS URLs; I’d check to ensure you can see the CSS source when hitting them directly, and if not, the rewrite conditions ensuring the REQUEST_FILENAME property is not an actual file/directory may not be working, this could also be an issue with it being a nested .htaccess

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:57:38 +0000

Hi,

I’m trying to get this working for a blog in a subdirectory (/blog), but I cant get it working properly. I’ve got it so the links are working fine, but however the CSS files are all broken, and then the admin pages dont work also.

I’ve used Isapi Rewrite 3 successfully on a number of sites, so this is definitely working correctly.

One possible problem is that the main site also has a .htaccess file, but this has rules to exlude blog. Could this be causing an issue? I’ve followed all the steps above.

Cheers,

Chris.

By: andy

andy — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:01:41 +0000

@Junaid thanks! I’m not sure if it’s needed on IIS 7 as I think it has rewriting capabilities, it was mainly built for IIS 6 and ISAPI Rewrite when I had to work in that environment and the support was limited to editing core WP files.

Good call on updating the stats, thanks for letting me know it’s working on Windows 2008 + IIS 7 as well as WP 2.9. I figured newer versions were supporting (and my workload has been full) so I haven’t had a chance to setup a new virtual environment to test the new versions.

Thanks again for the kind words and I’m glad it helped you out!

By: Junaid

Junaid — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 17:07:35 +0000

Nice work on this, I am surprised this plugin is not more popular considering how many Wordpress installations would be hosted on Windows.

Please keep it maintained and up to date. It seems to work well on Windows 2008/IIS7 and Wordpress 2.9 – so you could probably update the compatibility version list.

Thanks and good job.

By: andy

andy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:08:35 +0000

@Ash Thanks, I’m glad you got it working. Ha, if I were a true star I would’ve caught the RewriteRule as well ;p

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:04:08 +0000

Wow thanks for the amazingly fast reply!

I figured it was the .htaccess but i dont know too much about them. I tried what you suggested and it didnt work, But then i figured i’d try the line at the bottom and it did work:

RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

So for anyone who installs their blog in a subdirectory that should patch it up.

Cheers once again Andy, you’re a star :0)

By: andy

andy — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:25:06 +0000

I don’t have any tests within a subdirectory, but I would try updating the RewriteBase directive to be:

RewriteBase /path-name/

Right now it’s assuming the root is the base directory. Give that a try and let me know, but currently this has only been successful for me in a root directory scenario.

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:49:08 +0000

Ok so i have installed this plugin successfully on the root of a site and on a subdomain of another site using the following .htaccess in the root of the site/subdomain:

# BEGIN WordPress

Options +Followsymlinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

CheckSpelling On

# END WordPress

and the following permalink:

/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%

But now i’ve moved the blog to http://www.mydomain.com/blog and it doesn’t work at all.

I’ve tried creating a new site on the same hosting (all of the above mentioned sites are hosted on the same reseller hosting cp – windows) and again setting the blog up in the /blog subfolder, with htaccess in that subfolder (i’ve even copied and pasted the exact same one from your example above) and it doesn’t work – file not found.

Why would it work prefectly on the root of 4 or 5 sites but not in a subfolder?

Great plugin, any help is greatly appreciated