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HELP!! ISAPI_Redirect 2 rules for Wordpress 2.7 on Windows Minimus?

  • 26-05-2009 6:44pm
    #1
    Bard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,309 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi ho...

    I'm running a couple of Wordpress sites on a Blacknight shared Windows (Minimus) server and, so far, have been using the not-so-pretty format permalinks, i.e.:

    http://myblog.com/index.php/year/month/day/post-title/

    Today I decided I wanted to chop out the "index.php/" part, thus prettying them up. This got me wondering a number of things (not least of which was "WHY did I sign up for WINDOWS Minimus and not Unix/Linux???!!")... basically ... how do I do it?

    Anyway... to switch to these 'friendlier' permalinks, I eventually realised, after searching around a bit, I needed to use ISAPI_Redirect (Blacknight have version 2 on their server) - whis is essentially the IIS equivalent of Apache's mod_rewrite, and write myself a httpd.ini to work with Wordpress.

    This was the httpd.ini that was recommended:
    [ISAPI_Rewrite]
# Rules to ensure that normal content gets through
RewriteRule /software-files/(.*) /software-files/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /images/(.*) /images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /favicon.ico /favicon.ico [L]
RewriteRule /robots.txt /robots.txt [L]

# For file-based wordpress content (i.e. theme), admin, etc.
RewriteRule /wp-(.*) /wp-$1 [L]

# Rule to perform 301 redirect (Remove index.php if specified)
RewriteRule /index.php/(.*) /$1 [I,RP]

# For normal wordpress content, via index.php
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule /(.*) /index.php/$1 [L]

    This worked... once or twice, but 99+% of the time, it's bringing back a "redirect loop" error saying that "The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete."

    Been googling and trying multiple different configurations of the httpd.ini file and nothing works...

    Has anyone got any suggestions?

    (And yes,... I know the best suggestion is 'switch to Unix'... let's just pass on that for now, shall we?)


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