{"id":3667,"date":"2013-12-07T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2013-12-07T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2013-12-20T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T20:04:25","slug":"configure-permalinks-on-iis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/?p=3667","title":{"rendered":"Configure Permalinks on IIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Using Permalinks<\/h3>\n

Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each post should be permanent, and never change \u2014 hence permalink.<\/p>\n

Permalink Types<\/h3>\n

There are three basic types of WordPress permalinks:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Default: “Ugly”
    \nThe default links, which looks like this:
    \nhttp:\/\/example.com\/?p=N
    \nwhere N is the Post ID number. It works on all server environments, but it doesn’t look as nice as some of the other options.<\/p>\n
  2. mod_rewrite: “Pretty Permalinks”
    \nUsing mod_rewrite or lighttpd you can produce much nicer permalinks (see Pretty Permalinks). There are many different formats, but the most common, and most versatile looks like:
    \nhttp:\/\/example.com\/category\/post-name\/
    \nor http:\/\/example.com\/year\/month\/day\/post-name
    \nSome people eliminate some or all of the date elements (day, month, year) to have a shorter permalink format.
    \nPretty permalinks are available under:
    \nApache web server with the mod_rewrite module
    \nMicrosoft IIS 7+ web server with the URL Rewrite 1.1+ module and PHP 5 running as FastCGI
    \nMicrosoft IIS 6+ using ASAPI_Rewrite
    \nLighttpd using a 404 handler or mod_rewrite (see See Also)<\/p>\n
  3. PATHINFO: “Almost Pretty”
    \nPATHINFO permalinks look very much like mod_rewrite permalinks but for one exception: they have \/index.php inserted before them, like so:
    \nhttp:\/\/example.com\/index.php\/yyyy\/mm\/dd\/post-name\/
    \nOtherwise, they are the same as the “pretty” mod_rewrite permalinks, and are similarly flexible. Anything that mod_rewrite permalinks can do, PATHINFO permalinks can do, with the help of that \/index.php part. There is a helpful plugin that displays the type of permalinks being used and detailed information on the internal rewrite rules used by WordPress.\n<\/ol>\n

    Choosing your permalink structure<\/h3>\n

    In the Settings > Permalinks panel (Options > Permalinks before WordPress 2.5), you can choose one of the “common” structures or enter your own in the “Custom structure” field using the structure tags.
    \nPlease note: You never, ever put your site url in the permalinks slot. You must use one of the structure tags,
    \nor a combination of tags only.<\/p>\n

    %year% – The year of the post, four digits, for example 2004
    \n%monthnum% – Month of the year, for example 05
    \n%day% – Day of the month, for example 28
    \n%hour% – Hour of the day, for example 15
    \n%minute% – Minute of the hour, for example 43
    \n%second% – Second of the minute, for example 33
    \n%postname% – A sanitized version of the title of the post (post slug field on Edit Post\/Page panel).
    \nSo “This Is A Great Post!” becomes this-is-a-great-post in the URI (see Using only %postname%).
    \nStarting Permalinks with %postname% is not recommended, for performance reasons.
    \n%post_id% – The unique ID # of the post, for example 423
    \n%category% – A sanitized version of the category name (category slug field on New\/Edit Category panel). Nested sub-categories appear as nested directories in the URI. Starting Permalinks with %category% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons.
    \n%tag% – A sanitized version of the tag name (tag slug field on New\/Edit Tag panel). Starting Permalinks with %tag% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons
    \n%author% – A sanitized version of the author name. Starting Permalinks with %author% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons<\/p>\n

    Using “Pretty” permalinks (IIS)<\/h3>\n

    Permalinks without mod_rewrite<\/strong><\/p>\n

    “Pretty” permalinks usually require mod_rewrite<\/strong>, and IIS (common on Windows servers) does not support mod_rewrite. (If you are using Apache 2.0.54, on Windows, mod_rewrite may work, provided it is enabled in apache\\conf\\httpd.conf.) If you are using IIS 7 and have admin rights on your server, you can use Microsoft’s URL Rewrite Module<\/strong> instead. Though not completely compatible with mod_rewrite, it does support WordPress’s pretty permalinks. Once installed, open the web.config file in the WordPress folder and add the following rule to the system.webServer element<\/p>\n

    \r\n<rewrite>\r\n    <rules>\r\n        <rule name=\"Main Rule\" stopProcessing=\"true\">\r\n            <match url=\".*\" \/>\r\n            <conditions logicalGrouping=\"MatchAll\">\r\n                <add input=\"{REQUEST_FILENAME}\" matchType=\"IsFile\" negate=\"true\" \/>\r\n                <add input=\"{REQUEST_FILENAME}\" matchType=\"IsDirectory\" negate=\"true\" \/>\r\n            <\/conditions>\r\n            <action type=\"Rewrite\" url=\"index.php\/{R:0}\" \/>\r\n        <\/rule>\r\n    <\/rules>\r\n<\/rewrite><\/pre>\n
     <\/p>\n
    Download info and files…<\/h3>\n
    There’s a full installation guide<\/a> on the IIS site. You can also download a copy of this page, a copy of the Microsoft page, and the required files (for either x86 or x64) from me, here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Using Permalinks Permalinks are the permanent URLs to your individual weblog posts, as well as categories and other lists of weblog postings. A permalink is what another weblogger will use to link to your article (or section), or how you might send a link to your story in an e-mail message. The URL to each […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.webputzer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}