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Permalinks for wordpress on IIS

It’s taken me months to get this sorted, but I finally found a way to get nice, pretty permalinks for my wordpress installation in Microsoft’s web server IIS. Permalinks are natively supported by the Apache web server with a little help from the Mod_Rewrite module. Unfortunately there isn’t any equivalent module built into windows.

I downloaded the Wordpress URL rewrite plugin and it worked without any installation hassles whatsoever. Be warned though - you will need root access to your web server as the .dll needs to added to the ISAPI filters on IIS.

Hopefully the plugin works for Wordpress Mu - going to try that next.

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