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1. sporty
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   The "pretty permalinks" don't work for me.

   WP 3.0 itself works like a dream, I suspect it's something to do with the rewrite module.

   I want to use custom structure like
   /%year%/%month%/%postname%/ or better /%postname%/

   I just get 404 errors when navigating to, for example, mywebsite.com/about (WP does rename the links to be 'pretty' but won't navigate to them)

   I have a nice clean WP 3.0 install on windows 7/IIS 7.5 on my local machine. Php version 5.2.13 and Server API shows "CGI/FastCGI". I installed WP 3.0 by installing using MS platform installer (installed wp 2.8 or 2.9 I think) then upgraded which works amazingly smoothly.

   Have tried NUMEROUS web.config rewrite styles from different forums etc, but always get 404 not found when I it tries to access the pretty url. this is my current one:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <configuration>
   <system.webServer>
   <rewrite>
   <rules>
   <rule name="WordPress Rule" stopProcessing="true">
   <match url=".*" />
   <conditions>
   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
   </conditions>
   <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?page_id={R:0}" />
   </rule>
   </rules>
   </rewrite>
   </system.webServer>
   </configuration>

   I'd love to create a step by step guide for this if I can get it working.

   Physical path is C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp e.g:
   C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp\wp-admin
   C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp\ wp-content
   C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp\ wp-includes

   I only have one web.config and it is located on
   c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp\web.config

   c:\inetpub\wwwroot\wp\php.ini says:
   cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
   cgi.force_redirect = 0

   I actually thought WP 2.8+ would create the correct web.config or setttings for permalinks but doesn't seem to do that.

   Being my local server I have tried giving 'everyone' full permissions on the wp subfolder incase there was some permissions error.

   I am using a hosts entry called and browing on newfm.com/xxx
   127.0.0.1 newfm.com

   everything works peferectly until I try pretty permalinks.

   I have also tried this on windows 2008 server environment and been unable to get it working. actually I tried that first and figured I'd be better off getting it working on my local server then trying production ;)

   any help GREATLY apreciated. I've spent on and off weeks trolling forums and trying to get this working, first on 2.8, 2.9 and now 3.0

   regards
   ewart.

2. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Review this page.

3. sporty
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks, I did review the documentation on installation and have tried those settings, they are bsaically the same as what I have above, and it doesn't work on either server.

   i see that page links to an offsite page with has a _different_ setting, so I'm not sure which one is supposely correct, maybe both.. but neither work for me.

   does anyone have any ideas if there any other variations I should try? what else should I check? how can I go about debugging whats wrong?

4. sporty
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Resolved, with much help from microsoft, somehow the installation process had failed partly for the RewriteModule. It did install, however was non-functional because a dll didn't register properly. apparently this is very rate, lucky me!

   was fixed with a complex and probably unrepeatable series of manually editing IIS configuration files.. however repairing, or reinstallation of the rewrite module might help you if you are in the same situation.

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