Rewrite rules for web.config needed

  • Ravi

    (@ravidreams)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,

    Our WP runs in a Windows server

    and have a permalink format like

    /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/

    We changed this to

    /%postname%/

    and it works without any problem.

    But the old /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ URLs are throwing 404 errors. What rewrite rule should I add to web.config to redirect them properly?

    Thanks,

    Ravi

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  • David Gard

    (@duck_boy)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    WP should do that for you when you change your permalink structure, unless it is unable to write to .htaccess.

    I also use /%postname%/ and here is exactly what is in my auto generated .htaccess file (works fine if I enter the other structure too) –

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    Thread Starter Ravi

    (@ravidreams)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    duck_boy,

    I am using a Windows server. So, there is no .htaccess.

    I have only web.config and WP could already make the permalinks working properly.

    But I could not get the old URLs to redirect to the new ones properly.

    David Gard

    (@duck_boy)

    14 years, 8 months ago

    Ah, sorry – didn’t twig on that bit.

    As far as I know WP is designed to run on Apache, not ISS (although it clearly can), so there may be some missing functionality in relation to this. Unfortunatly I’m not an expert with ISS, but I hope you find your solution.

    Pioneer Web Design

    (@swansonphotos)

    14 years, 6 months ago

    Please see this example and carefully review what each line does before using as is:

    http://pastebin.com/MnDgNisg

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