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

By: DDF Zone Diaries – Wordpress Pretty Permalinks – Windows IIS 5.1 « DDFZONE

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:23:36 +0000

[...] We downloaded and installed following Kyle Caufields post: Permalink for WordPress – IIS 6 mod_rewrite FIXED – Free . On Windows XP Pro, IIS is accessed under Computer Management . The Default install location for ISAPI Remote is the Local Directory. We installed the ISAPI_Rewrite3 Filter under the Default Web Directory. If you plan on supporting multiple Web Sites, you will need the Full Version. Hit up the ISAPI Rewrite Support Forums for more detailed support . But we still had 404 errors. We tried every configuration option we could find, and almost gave up since almost every solution was based on Windows Server 2003 and IIS 6 and none on our current system: – OS Version: Windows XP Pro SP 3 - Server Version: Microsoft-IIS/5.1 – MySQL Version: 5.0.17 – PHP Version: 5.2.5 – WordPress Version: 3.0 So, it would be natural to assume that you must run on a server platform for this to work. NOT GIVING UP ! . After more hours, articles and posts we discovered Andy Stratton’s plugin for WP that not only handles the rewrites for our top-level pages but also the child pages under the drop down menus. Get WordPress Permalinks Working with Windows, IIS, and ISAPI Rewrite [...]

By: dsv210

dsv210 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:54:42 +0000

thanks for your suggestion andy – i will run this past my developer

By: andy

andy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:01:42 +0000

@dsv210 I’m not sure, I’m not familiar with your specific install and I avoid Windows hosting for anything PHP related like the plague.

You can achieve the same effect but would need to write some generic rules so you’re not killing your CSS files or image files.

That’s the main issue, ISAPI Rewrite 3.0 supports the -f and -d flags to ignore actual files and directories and only redirect URLs that don’t physically exist on the server.

You could do something like:

RewriteRule !\.(css|jpe?g|gif|png|js|pdf)$ index.php [L]

Where you’ve got that subexpression representing all file names you could have static and just make sure you keep your permalinks extensionless.

Hope that insight helps you out, good luck!

P.S. Best solution is get WP off that host ;]

By: dsv210

dsv210 — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:50:22 +0000

is there any way of getting wordpress permalinks to work without upgrading to isapi 3?
we have our wordpress blog installed within our root folder on a windows 2003 server using iis6 and isapi 2.11 – we have around 30 websites on the server all using isapi 2.11 for rewrites – upgrading will be really difficult – as all the rules would need to be changed – is there any possible way around this?
thanks

By: andy

andy — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:31:12 +0000

@Neo – Thanks for posting. That’s awesome, if the headers in the latest version of ISAPI Rewrite are sending REQUEST_URI then you’re correct this plugin is a waste of time, and will probably break your site if they removed the X_HTTP_REWRITE header.

By: Neo

Neo — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:19:00 +0000

Got it to work on Windows 2003 on IIS 6.0.

Her we go:

1. Install ISAPI Rewrite 3 Lite, just as it is described above.
2. Put this on the C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\http.conf file:

# BEGIN WordPress

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

CheckSpelling On

# END WordPress

Restart IIS only you’re just installed ISAPI Rewrite. You dont nedd to restart IIS each time you modified this file.

3. DO NOT install the plugin. You dont need it.
4. Enjoy

By: Brian V. Hunt

Brian V. Hunt — Sun, 30 May 2010 03:08:01 +0000

And I gave you props here: http://brianvhunt.com/dancing-with-the-stars/

By: Brian V. Hunt

Brian V. Hunt — Sun, 30 May 2010 01:26:37 +0000

Andy,

I have been struggling with WP and permalinks for two months. I had had to have my host install IsapiRewrite4 and I had to edit that file with a new rule everytime I added a page or post.

I recently created some drop-down menus in Thesis and they would not work correctly under the rewrite solution I was using.

I finally dumped the rewrite rules from the IsapiRewite4.ini, turned off the rewrite engine in that file, activated your plugin, and created an .htaccess file in the root.

Voila, all rewrites are now working.

THANK YOU!

Brian

By: apar

apar — Sat, 22 May 2010 12:09:25 +0000

Andy what are the reason to taking too long process to execute programing language and how would i solve permanently………

i am using to transfer webpage text into database with php .

By: andy

andy — Fri, 07 May 2010 03:30:44 +0000

Sorry for the long delay folks.

@Andy Thanks for sharing that!

@Ryan no prob. Glad it helped. Making WordPress and IIS 6 play nice was a pain in my ass for years.

@apar let’s stay focused to the plugin in these comments.

@Amy send me an email through the site if you’re still struggling.

@Mauricio I honestly haven’t work on Windows Server since the initial development/testing of this plugin – which is easily a year now – I’m not sure what that’s about!