Permalinks with WordPress on IIS
WordPress is the software that runs this site, if you didn’t know. I grabbed it and actually installed it in about 5 minutes. The learning part came when I wanted Pretty Permalinks. If you look up in the address bar you can see it says /permalinks-with-wordpress-on-iis/ instead of ?p=1%ewer=234242. I am not saying it is pretty to you or me but the search engines find words in the URL alot prettier than gobblygook.
So I am fiddling with the administration and it seems I just have to check a button to get the pretty urls. Of course, it doesn’t work right away. I get Page Not Found. So I start fiddling with it and find out that I need to be hosted on an Apache server (which I’m not) and use Mod_Rewrite (which uses Apache). I have IIS.
It ended up taking me about 4 hours total to find a solution and I don’t want anyone to go through what I just did. While it wasn’t completely smooth KeyboardFace’s page on how to create a function similiar to Mod_Rewrite on an IIS server for WordPress saved me. Hallelujah!
Now I’m gonna mess with some plugins.