URL Rewriting with WordPress on IIS 7

published on 2011-08-16 included in Dev

1. Make sure that the URL Rewrite module is installed. You can check / install through the WebPI installer. 2. Add the following configuration into the system.Webserver section of the web.config at the root of the wordpress site: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true"> <match url=".*" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll"> <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" /> <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" /> </rule> </rules> </rewrite> More detailed instructions: