Jan 07 2007
Pretty Permalinks in WordPress with IIS
I’ve tried multiple ways of getting the “pretty” permalinks to work, with little success. My host, Parcom, is a Windows-based host, and uses IIS servers. The “pretty” permalinks in WordPress need Apache servers to run correctly. There are a few workarounds that I’ve found on the web, but none of them seemed to work. The one that worked for me is the following:
I set my custom error page to the root relative path of my blog. In this case, that was “/whatever/” (without the quotes, obviously). I then went to the WordPress permalinks management page and created custom rules for my links. I did NOT uses “/index.php” in front of the rules. I then downloaded the following plugin:
WordPress Remove Index.php from Permalinks in IIS Plugin
I installed the plugin into the “plugins” directory (go figure) then I went to the WordPress plugins configuration page and activated that plugin.
Voila! The “pretty” links finally work.
I tried many other options, and this was the one that finally worked for me.
If you can’t get this to work, there are other workarounds. Check the links below:
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Eric, what happened to your comments? I know that I posted at least two and so did Derek?
Did they delete?
The comments didn’t delete . . . they were simply put into a queue for moderation. I didn’t realize it, but I had it set that a person would actually have to sign up before they posted. I changed that, but still, I have it set so that I have to approve a user the first time, then they should be able to post without me having to approve the comment. Give it a try.