I come to you professionals for some guidance and help.

I am currently hosting a website / sharing blog for the community of Doctors and clinicians in my city to share ideas and news. (news stories, pictures, videos etc)

I am hosting it on a Windows 2008 R2 server running IIS 7.5, WordPress 3.8.1 and I am getting occasional and very frustrating 500 errors relating to fast cgi. At first I thought it was the W3 Total cache addon causing wincache errors but i have turned that off and it still gives me the errors.

The errors are totally random at various times and days. Some times I get 4 on a row, sometimes I go weeks without getting them. At first they were a nuisance but now they’re hindering the actual function of the website.

I have tried everything except a Linux / Apache server to get this going reliably.

I humbly ask for your assistance in getting this going reliably as it is a very excellent source of knowledge and sharing of advice to my colleagues and friends in the community.

Any help would be appreciated.

Dr. Gary Z. Bie

Tried installing Hueman from WP’s theme manager. Throws a 500, even on preview.

Tried downloading it and installing it manually. Throws a 500, even on preview.

This looks like a very beautiful theme and I would very much like to use it, but I can’t use it if I can’t make it work.

I have NO other plugins installed. This is a brand spanking new WP 3.8.1 install, the ONLY thing that I’ve added to it is Hueman.

mysite.com/sitemap.xml redirects to mysite.com/sitemap.xml/

I know that I am probably asking the same question and have the same problem that everyone else seems to have. But I looked through 3 pages and didn’t see what I needed. So here goes.

I need a multisite wordpress. So I installed it cleanly; fresh DB, no themes (except what came with WP) and no plugins. Its hosted locally and I can use the base site normally. “wordpress.example.com” is the base install with directory network used. So my next site is “wordpress.example.com/metal”
This doesn’t work.
The content is the only thing that loads which seems to be a copy of the base site. No themes are loaded. Also, WP-ADMIN does not work. I get a 404 error.

I have updated the web.config as per wordpress instructions and its wrong somehow. Please advise, thanks!

I did everything as per the instructions that I found in the net (since I am totally new to this I referred lot of websites to do this), I think I am pretty close to accomplish what I needed, however I am facing problem in the last step, i.e. “Not able to wp-config.php file for the MSSQL database configuration”.
I always getting the same error page i.e. check your DB, check your credentials, check the DB server is up and running. I am pretty sure all these are working fine, I created a testconnection.php file and I provided the DB details and tried to access the MSSQL database and I succeeded.

Whereas when I am trying to do through setup-config.php
https://<<My website>>/wp-content/mu-plugins/wp-db-abstraction/setup-config.php I am not getting it through, I have provided all the database related information and I have chosen the database type as “SQL Server Using MS PHP Driver”.

Configuration Detail:
IIS 7.5
WordPress – 3.3.1
SQL Server 2008 R2
PHP 5.3.16 (Thread safe)
MSSQL ODBC Driver
Windows 7

Appreciate any help on this.

Srv2008R2, SQLExpress2012, or, I could connect to SQL Server 2008. I’m in IIS 7.5; I have php 5.4.4, and I have the drivers:

php_pdo_sqlsrv_53_nts.dll, (non-thread-safe)
php_pdo_sqlsrv_53_ts.dll, (non-thread-safe)
php_pdo_sqlsrv_54_nts.dll, (thread-safe)
php_pdo_sqlsrv_54_ts.dll (thread-safe)

php_sqlsrv_53_nts.dll, (non-thread-safe)
php_sqlsrv_53_ts.dll, (non-thread-safe)
php_sqlsrv_54_nts.dll, (thread-safe)
php_sqlsrv_54_ts.dll (thread-safe)

These are all enabled via PHP Manager in IIS.

I’m at the WordPress install (all the prerequisites checkout, which I can provide info on later).

My options are (from the setup-config.php abstraction):

MySQL (don’t need)
MySQLi (don’t need)
SQL Server using MS PHP driver
PDO MySQL (don’t need)
PDO SqlSrv

I know “SQL Server using MS PHP driver” is the sqlsrv API and that “PDO SqlSrv” is the PDO version. I don’t think it should make a lot of difference, but which should I choose?

How do they correspond to the drivers I have listed above??

My install is inhouse. Any advice would be helpful.

Thank you!

Here’s my problem. When I add a 2nd site “localhost/wordpress/fcs” it completes without errors but it doesn’t create any folders/files on the iiS server. I’ve googled the He double LL out of the internet and this site but can’t find what I’m obviously missing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

If I log in as admin, It does show that I have 60 some posts…but when I click on the word “posts” to display the posts, I get an empty grid with page 1 of 3 on the top right. If I click on next page, I see the 20 most recent posts. Then another odd thing is that if I click next page to get to the last page, it still shows me the first 20 posts, plus and other 15 posts.

I have looks at several posts on installation and setup, and seem to have everything installed correctly. Any direction/advice would be helpful.

We are migrating all our sites at www.example.com over to separate WordPress Network installs but in order to have 1 WordPress install centrally to manage these I need to have WordPress installed in the root of www.example.com.

I have WordPress working fine in www.example.com which can be accessed via www.example.com/index.php including WordPress admin etc but when I try to access www.example.com/subsite1/ I get redirected to www.example.com/index.php even through subsite 1 is set up as a WordPress site.

NOTE: www.example.com/subsite1/index.php works ok.

The current web.config looks like this:

<rule name="WordPress Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
  <match url="^index\.php$" ignoreCase="false" />
  <action type="None" />
</rule>

<rule name="WordPress Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)" ignoreCase="false" />
  <action type="Rewrite" url="wp-includes/ms-files.php?file={R:2}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>

<rule name="WordPress Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}wp-admin/" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>

<rule name="WordPress Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
  <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />
  </conditions>
            <action type="None" />
</rule>

<rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
            <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" />
</rule>

<rule name="WordPress Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" ignoreCase="false" />
 <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
</rule>

As I have existing .aspx, .asp and .html content in this root I can’t have the standard catch all to make WordPress kick in or set the default document to be index.php so I was trying to have something like the following:

<rule name="WordPress Engine Rule" stopProcessing="true">
 <match url="^subsite1/.*)" ignoreCase="true" />
 <action type="Redirect" url="subsite1/index.php" />
</rule>

Any help greatly appreciated!