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When setting up your rules for wordpress keep in mind that we use Isapi_Rewrite 2.0 from Helicon, the rules are different from those used in 3.0 which are more like Apache rewrites.

[ISAPI_Rewrite] RewriteRule /a.html /b.html [L]

The above code works. Now I need to apply it to wordpress. I am so clueless.

It failed. I am going to open a ticket and see what my ISP says.

Hi Arkgroup,
I know enough about coding to be dangerous. I don’t know how to write a simple rule for ISAPI_Rewrite 2.0

Ok my server got back to me and they now tell me we have ISAPI_Rewrite version 2.0
I guess this is the monkey wrench that has been in the machine.

I tried

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /news/index.php [L]

and I tried

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /news/index.php [L]

They didn’t work.

When I setup the permalinks I took
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

Then I did a custom Custom Structure and removed the year, month, day, leaving just /%postname%/

I am not sure if that is the reason it still isn’t working.

My .htaccess is in my news directory and it contains

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /news/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule .* /index.php [L]

It doesn’t work, i am not sure why.

My server company is on weekend support and they say we don’t have ISAPI Rewrite 3 on the server but if I ad code to .htaccess it will work. I don’t think they know what they are talking about.

Anyway I am going to a BBQ so I will have to work on this later. Thanks for helping. I will be back to this later.

It didn’t work. I am assuming the root would be the folder I installed wordpress into news.

The server host provided me a httpd.ini file not a .htaccess file. I am not sure why. You would think someone ran into this problem before me. I am not reinventing the wheel here.

Hi govpatel,

Ok I got the plugin in place but it says I need to edit the .htaccess file. I don’t have one. Does anyone know what directory it’s supposed to be in?