Getting WordPress to work in IIS6

I have about 40 blogs that i manage, though i dont write on them personally, all of which are hosted on Linux Servers. I was asked to build a blog to be hosted on Windows Server 2003 using IIS6. There seems to be a lot of people who also tried this and failed when it came to permalinks, as windows doesn’t understand the htaccces rules. There were a few good blog posts and forum entries that explained a “way around” for windows, but non of these helped solve the problem. My only solution was to re-write all the rules in ISAPI, which i currently have installed on my server (not the lite version though).  It was so simple and quick i don’t even know why i bothered looking at other posts and forums! Pat on the back for me.

This entry was written by recycle and posted on April 18, 2008 at 1:46 pm and filed under Wordpress Plugins. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

2 Comments

  1. Jill
    Posted June 14, 2008 at 6:59 am | Permalink

    I have installed WP 2.5.1 on Windows, but I don’t know how to fix it - how to re-write the rules in ISAPI - can you explain?

  2. recycle
    Posted June 16, 2008 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

    First you will need to install the Isapi software onto your Windows Server, link here http://www.helicontech.com/download-isapi_rewrite.htm

    make sure you have full read and write access to your WordPress installation files so you can add the Httpd.ini file.

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