Comments on: Update for WordPress Permalinks on IIS

By: Iris Isac

Iris Isac — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:02:54 +0000

Thanks a ton for this solution. I had seraching a lot for it and now I am using it in WordPress thesis theme with IIS. HHowever I have a problem, when I go to individual post the page is refreshing again and again. I am not able to resolve it. Can someone hwlp please?. My Blog is for a tour operator in India @ http://www.irisholidays.com/blog/volunteering-vacations-in-kerala/2010/03/05/

By: Andy Boyns

Andy Boyns — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:37:47 +0000

“Be aware though that as this currently stands it does prevent you from using $_POST and $_GET as Hep pointed out above. So if you have a contact form or something similar that requires this then this solution wont work for you.”

Has anyone any idea how to make this work. I need to use qTranslate, and this requires me to use ?Lang=TR

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:18:50 +0000

Custom 404′s while preserving the ability to have permalinks are possible using this hack with a small tweak — see http://dotnetyuppie.com/2009/09/21/permalinks-and-mod_rewrite-headaches-in-wordpress-with-iis/

By: Mujtaba

Mujtaba — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 13:48:16 +0000

hi thanks for the code, it worked like a charm!

i want to know if its possible to write a custom 404 page which can handle bbpress permalinks as well as wordpress permalinks in the same 404 file. iam running the forum at mywebsite/forum

thanks

By: Ivo

Ivo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:32:30 +0000

I followed your instructions and it worked. However, now the blog’s main page shows me my sidebar while the individual post pages only have the post text and not the sidebar.

Any ideas on why that is?

THanks!

By: Ivo

Ivo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:46:15 +0000

Scratch my previous cry for help, Einar helped me out with his post. Now the problem is that any other 404 on my whole website (that is not my blog) is a blank page. Anyone have a solution for this?

blog: http://www.seabrookwa.com/blog
website: http://www.seabrookwa.com

THANKS!

By: Ivo

Ivo — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:28:24 +0000

Please help! I tried your handler workaround but the whole point is NOT to have index.php in my pretty permalinks. With index.php in there, they aren’t really pretty, are they?

My custom permalink is /%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/

I erased the line 5 (include index.php) and it now gives me a blank page. Can someone please help me??? Thanks!

By: Chad Killingsworth

Chad Killingsworth — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 03:49:15 +0000

I got the blank page at first as well. Eventually tracked it down to the fact that my web host had the default document set to “Index.php” with a capital “I”. Changing it to all lowercase seemed to fix the problem.

By: Simon

Simon — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 22:33:32 +0000

Hi,

I thought this was an excellent solution to this issue – I have it up and running just fine.

Be aware though that as this currently stands it does prevent you from using $_POST and $_GET as Hep pointed out above. So if you have a contact form or something similar that requires this then this solution wont work for you.

If you just use WordPress as it comes out of the box then this is great.

Does anyone know of a way to enable form posting/reading functionality?

Many thanks!

By: william

william — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:39:12 +0000

Thank you! I have been searching for a fix for this since wordpress 2.5!

I ran into a few problems other people had listed. I’ll post a few and hopefully it will help someone

My wordpress is in a folder called /site/. Godaddy hosting, windows dedicated server, iis 6.

The wp-404-handler.php file goes in your wordpress root folder, not the theme folder.

My “include” in the wp-404-handler.php file required the full site path. Ex: include ‘http://mysite.com/site/index.php';
Not having the full path gave me no error, just a blank page.