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1. mapsedge
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   Posted 1 year ago #

   I'm trying to create an easy way to communicate my Facebook page link to people - something I can write on a cocktail napkin, so to speak. What I'm trying to do is

   http://www.billMorrisMusic.net/facebook

   ...and then, in IIS, redirect from there to the much longer, awkward, hard-to-share address that Facebook creates. I can do this on IIS - I've done it on other, non-WP sites, so I know it can be done. According to IIS, it works just fine. (Alternately, I could do it with a PHP file and a LOCATION header...if.)

   However, my WP site gives me a 404 error. I think it's probably something to do with permalinks, but I don't know enough about the system to say one way or the other.

   Can someone help here? What do I need to do?

2. mapsedge
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Never mind, found the issue. For posterity, here's what happened, and how I addressed it.

   On my WP site, since I'm running on IIS, I had to install a plug-in to get permalinks to work. I'm using the URL rewrite from

   http://www.binaryfortress.com/WordPress-URL-Rewrite/

   I had to add an exception to the .ini file for /facebook. That allowed the redirect to happen.

   Done.

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