Removing Index.php in Permalinks using IIS 8

Hi Everyone,

So I’ve been spending the better part of the day to figure out a way to remove “/index.php” from my permalinks.

I’m using discountasp.net, so it’s a Windows server. I don’t prefer this, but for the person I’m making the site for, it’s necessary.

So far, I’ve found a solution changing my web.config file to:

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

This works to remove /index.php from my permalinks on pages, but what happens now is my homepage needs to have /index.php at the end, otherwise it just shows a directory listing.

Any help would be really appreciated.