URL Rewriting for WordPress under IIS

Probably a one line instruction or something would be helpful for the users ??

ooooh, where were you 1 year ago when I was on a windows server?!? Looks good, bookmarked it. ??

Might be worth noting that this is a DLL that has to be installed on the server by the server admin, not something that users of a shared server are going to be able to add to WP to make pretty permalinks work.

Good to have it for people who are running their own IIS servers, though.

Thanks, LesBessant!
That’s exactly what I was missing – though I understand only the “you-have-to-be-a-server-admin” part ??

thanks for your reply,I have updated my document and files,and add some install Instruction in it.

https://deanlee.cn/2006/09/02/url-rewriting-for-wordpress-under-iis/

hope it can be helpful to others.

Hi,

I installed the DLL in the root directory of my website. Registered it in ISAPI filters so now it appears with a green up arrow and a low priority.

I set permalinks to /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ or /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

and it still giving me ? No input file specified ?.

Am I missing something??

Thanks,

Stephane

Finally, I got it to work on IIS 6 and win 2k3 with this:

https://www.nathanm.com/2006/07/02/wordpress_permalinks_removing_indexphp_in_iis.html

The plugin is here:

https://www.nathanm.com/wordpress-plugins/

Stephane

to Stephane:
did you install your wordpress as a virtual directory,not in the root directory?

I have added a new feature to this plugin:
https://www.deanlee.cn/2006/09/02/url-rewriting-for-wordpress-under-iis/

now,this plugin can generate a 302 redirect to https://www.yourdomain.com when user or spider fetch yourdomain.com. this is a SEO feature, because the search engines usually see them as two separate sites.you can find this SEO tip at https://www.pronetadvertising.com/articles/optimizing-your-blog-for-search-engines.html by Neil Patel

If you find it useful, I’d love to know. If you have any suggestions on how to improve it, I’d love to hear it

My ISAPI filter problem – How I fixed it – Remaining Security Questions:

I had followed the following site word for word:
https://www.juryriggin.com/2006/11/07/fixing-permalinks-when-using-wordpress-windows-2003-iis-60 but WordPress ISAPI filter was creating many Application log errors 2268 and 2214

So I then (most hazardly and without web security in mind) added the WordPress users “site_name_Anon” and “site_name_Admin” to the IIS_WPG user Group (it is creatd by W2k3 by default) and I also gave the user IIS_WPG “read” and “execute” permissions to the WordPressPlugin.dll file.

** My Permalinks and ISAPI WordPress Filter now work !! **

The question I have now is: What security holes have I created?

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Why I did what I did:

I had gone to the following site to troubleshoot my ISAPI WordPress Filter problem.

https://blogs.msdn.com/david.wang/archive/2005/06/21/HOWTO-Diagnose-and-Fix-Common-ISAPI-Filter-Installation-Failures.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

It educated me and I learned that my error was :
Data: 05 00 00 00 -Win32 error 5 – NET HELPMSG 5 returns “Access is denied.”

The article then mentions:

“For IIS6 in worker process isolation mode, the process identity is configurable and is at least a member of the IIS_WPG group” (see more on the link)

That’s when I got the idea to add the WordPress users “site_name_Anon” and “site_name_Admin” to the IIS_WPG user Group (it is creatd by W2k3 by default) and I also gave the user IIS_WPG “read” and “execute” permissions on the WordPressPlugin.dll file.