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1. mfrodsham
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #

   Hi everyone

   I hope someone can help me - I've had a look already on the forum on I've found this:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/media-library-links-to-page-not-found

   But that only shows ht.access rules and I have IIS and a web.config file.

   I have a multisite and basically any file I upload in the media library doesn't work when I link it - I see a preview of the photo but when I actually click it to display the image it says file not found and gives me a server error. It's obviously something to do with the rewrite rules in my web.config file. WordPress itself tells me to use this:

   <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <configuration>
       <system.webServer>
           <rewrite>
               <rules>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="^index\.php$" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <action type="None" />
                   </rule>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <action type="Rewrite" url="wp-includes/ms-files.php?file={R:2}" appendQueryString="false" />
                   </rule>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}wp-admin/" redirectType="Permanent" />
                   </rule>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                           <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
                           <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />
                       </conditions>
                       <action type="None" />
                   </rule>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
                   </rule>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                       <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
                   </rule>
                   <rule name="WordPress Rule 7" stopProcessing="true">
                       <match url="." ignoreCase="false" />
                       <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                   </rule>
               </rules>
           </rewrite>
       </system.webServer>
   </configuration>

   Now I had to change rule five from <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" /> to <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" /> to get my themes working across all the sites in the multisite, which I found here:

   http://wordpress.org/support/topic/iis-75-multisite-subdirectory-webconfig-rewrite-rules?replies=10

   I was a bit confused as to why I had to the change the code WordPress gave me to make it work! If anyone can explain that, that'd be a bonus.

   Anyway, can someone tell me how to change the rules to make the media work through the site? The site is http://www.bradshawcps.org.uk

   Thanks for your help.

2. Josh Maxwell
   Member
   Posted 1 month ago #

   Did you ever figure out a solution to this? I'm having a similar issue.

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