Hi
Did you manage to solve this issue? I’m facing exactly the same problem and can’t find the right solution anywhere!I’m on an IIS6 shared server so don’t have admin rights either.My blog is in a sub folder which I think may have implications too.
My host suggests the same as what you were doing – rewrite rules with ISAPI(they have it installed) for every new page. But seriously, that is a tedious path to go down, especially if you are posting fresh content more than once a week!
The other concern I have is that the solutions with the custom 404’s cannot be good for seo. Surely Google seeing a site full of 404s cannot work in your favour.
So now I’m a bit stuck. Is there any way to automate my rewrite rules so that I can have a custom permalink structure of category/postname/ or /postname/ without having to add rewrite rules for every new post or am I forced to go down the route of having index.php/category/postname? I’m really hoping you may have found the answer!
