Nested installations of WordPress + WooCommerce and permalinks issues

Hi there 🙂 !

I’m trying to do the following: One WordPress Installation in a directory, as usual. A second WordPress in a sub directory of the first one. Then a WooCommerce Installation within this sub directory. This way: WordPress -> WordPress -> WooCommerce. This is to have the shop separate from the main site, but still in the same domain.

I’m developing this mess in a Localhost LAN with IIS under W10.

I’m using WooLentor plugin to tune up WooCommerce, and here arises the issue:

I’ts impossible to sort products by categories or tags. It seems to be a permalinks related problem, and I’m pretty sure that it’s because of the IIS web.config rules, but I can’t make it work.

Lets say that you have the following URL:

https://localhost/test/wordpress/shop/

If you sit the pointer over a category to sort by, you can see that the URL pointed is:

https://localhost/test/wordpress/shop/?wlfilter=1&product_tag=t-shirt

But when you try to go, you get this instead and sorting fails:

https://localhost/test/wordpress/shop/product-tag/merchandising/?wlfilter=1

Anyway, if you write this URL directly in the browser:

https://localhost/test/wordpress/shop/shop/?wlfilter=1&product_tag=t-shirt

Magic, It works as expected!

Any ideas on IIS config or how to solve this?

Kind regards.