Try and install this plugin see if it solves your problem
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/isapi-rewriter/
keep us posted if it works so can help other window users.
Hi govpatel,
Ok I got the plugin in place but it says I need to edit the .htaccess file. I don’t have one. Does anyone know what directory it’s supposed to be in?
DrReaper,
Try to place .htaccess file into root folder of your wordpress.
it is a hidden file allow hidden files to be seen
It didn’t work. I am assuming the root would be the folder I installed wordpress into news.
The server host provided me a httpd.ini file not a .htaccess file. I am not sure why. You would think someone ran into this problem before me. I am not reinventing the wheel here.
You need to create .htaccess file and place it into wordpress directory.
Please make sure ISAPI Rewrite 3 installed on the server.
Or you may try to insert such code into your httpd.ini file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]
My server company is on weekend support and they say we don’t have ISAPI Rewrite 3 on the server but if I ad code to .htaccess it will work. I don’t think they know what they are talking about.
Anyway I am going to a BBQ so I will have to work on this later. Thanks for helping. I will be back to this later.
My .htaccess is in my news directory and it contains
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]
It doesn’t work, i am not sure why.
I’m not really a windows or apache user much any more, but should it not hit the index.php in the install dir?
That is, the last line should be: RewriteRule .* /news/index.php [L]
Have you read up in the codex?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
I tried
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /news/index.php [L]
and I tried
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /news/index.php [L]
They didn’t work.
When I setup the permalinks I took
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Then I did a custom Custom Structure and removed the year, month, day, leaving just /%postname%/
I am not sure if that is the reason it still isn’t working.
Ok my server got back to me and they now tell me we have ISAPI_Rewrite version 2.0
I guess this is the monkey wrench that has been in the machine.
DrReaper,
May be something’s wrong with isapi-rewrite. Try to make a simple rule and check whether it’s working or not.
Hi Arkgroup,
I know enough about coding to be dangerous. I don’t know how to write a simple rule for ISAPI_Rewrite 2.0
