Nope. IIS doesn’t do the permalinks thing. There’s some other method I think, but generally you’re well advised to give windows servers a miss entirely in favor of apache/linux.
If you do some close reading at the Permalinks page, and a LOT of googling, you may find some alternatives.
For instance, you could just add “index.php” to the beginning of your customer permalinks string (Options -> Permalinks).
Well, I just tried it on my webpage and I was able to get a permalink without the ?= ugly links. I was able to get at least the /index.php/mypage.php. I may switch though. Main thing is for SEO. I don’t know how much the extra /index.php/ might hurt me, if at all.
Quite a lot, AFAIK. Which is why the whole “prettyfying” thing happened to begin with.
I found out that WP will certainly do the permalinks, but it sure won’t work :). I had the permalinks, but would always get that it can’t find a page. Oh well, thanks. I’ll have to find some Unix hosting.
It could be done, but not without adding stuff to IIS to make it work.
Basically, you need rewriting capabilities. There’s addons for IIS to do this sort of thing, usually via ISAPI filters.
Here’s a few. I’ve not tried any of these, but they could all probably be made to work:
http://www.iistoolshed.com/
http://www.iismods.com/url-rewrite/index.htm
The first one looks the most promising to me. With some minor effort, it could probably be made to do the same thing as the existing .htaccess file. It also includes the source code, so it could be modified to work by a programmer, if necessary. Don’t think that it would be necessary though, from a quick glance at the readme file.
