Removing Index.php in Permalinks using IIS 8

  • Resolved justistar

    (@justistar)


    11 years, 6 months ago

    Hi Everyone,

    So I’ve been spending the better part of the day to figure out a way to remove “/index.php” from my permalinks.

    I’m using discountasp.net, so it’s a Windows server. I don’t prefer this, but for the person I’m making the site for, it’s necessary.

    So far, I’ve found a solution changing my web.config file to:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="WPurls" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".*" />
          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
          </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:0}" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

    This works to remove /index.php from my permalinks on pages, but what happens now is my homepage needs to have /index.php at the end, otherwise it just shows a directory listing.

    Any help would be really appreciated.

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  • You simply need to tell the server that the default page for your site is index.php.

    change your web.config to:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument enabled="true">
            <files>
                <add value="index.php" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="WPurls" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url=".*" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:0}" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>
    Thread Starter justistar

    (@justistar)

    @tiaanswart THAT WORKED PERFECTLY!

    Thank You so much!!!

    When I do that and change the permalinks to custom I get a 404? Windows Server 2003/IIS 7

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