HELP!! ISAPI_Redirect 2 rules for Wordpress 2.7 on Windows Minimus?

Bard

Hi ho...

I'm running a couple of Wordpress sites on a Blacknight shared Windows (Minimus) server and, so far, have been using the not-so-pretty format permalinks, i.e.:

http://myblog.com/index.php/year/month/day/post-title/

Today I decided I wanted to chop out the "index.php/" part, thus prettying them up. This got me wondering a number of things (not least of which was "WHY did I sign up for WINDOWS Minimus and not Unix/Linux???!!")... basically ... how do I do it?

Anyway... to switch to these 'friendlier' permalinks, I eventually realised, after searching around a bit, I needed to use ISAPI_Redirect (Blacknight have version 2 on their server) - whis is essentially the IIS equivalent of Apache's mod_rewrite, and write myself a httpd.ini to work with Wordpress.

This was the httpd.ini that was recommended:

[ISAPI_Rewrite]
# Rules to ensure that normal content gets through
RewriteRule /software-files/(.*) /software-files/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /images/(.*) /images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /favicon.ico /favicon.ico [L]
RewriteRule /robots.txt /robots.txt [L]

# For file-based wordpress content (i.e. theme), admin, etc.
RewriteRule /wp-(.*) /wp-$1 [L]

# Rule to perform 301 redirect (Remove index.php if specified)
RewriteRule /index.php/(.*) /$1 [I,RP]

# For normal wordpress content, via index.php
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule /(.*) /index.php/$1 [L]

This worked... once or twice, but 99+% of the time, it's bringing back a "redirect loop" error saying that "The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete."

Been googling and trying multiple different configurations of the httpd.ini file and nothing works...

Has anyone got any suggestions?

(And yes,... I know the best suggestion is 'switch to Unix'... let's just pass on that for now, shall we?)

mneylon

I'd love to give you a sane answer, but my regex foo is severely limited ...

Options ...

- ping our support desk if you haven't done so already

- post on our other forum (http://forum.blacknight.com)

Bard

Mark in Support installed this: [ http://www.deanlee.cn/wordpress/url-rewriting-for-wordpress-under-iis/ ] and it's working fine now

Thanks

mneylon

Glad to hear it