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Getting IIS6 to play nice with WordPress Pretty Permalinks

Getting IIS6 to play nice with WordPress Pretty Permalinks I've got a WordPress powered blog that I'm trying to get setup on our IIS6 server and everything works besides the permalink structure which I'm having a big headache with. After googling around/wordpress codex I learned that it's because IIS6 doesn't have the equivalent of Apache's mod_rewrite which is required for this feature to work. So that's where I'm at now. I can't seem to find a functional solution to get the pretty permalinks to work without the "index.php/," anyone have any recommendations? What I can't do: Upgrade to IIS7 Switch to Apache Quit my job Those suggestions have been offered to me, which sadly, I can't do any of those. Just an, FYI. Much thanks for anyone who can lead me in the right direction. 5 Answers I just came across the following answer on another question: Pretty URLs for search pages. Hope that helps! IIRF does this, for IIS6. ...

Using Apache mod_rewrite to remove sub-directories from URL I'm managing an instance of Wordpress where the URLs are in the following format: /example-category/blog-post-permalink/ The blog author did an inconsistent job of adding categories to posts, so while some of them had legitimate categories in their URLS, at least half are "uncategorised". I can easily change Wordpress to render the URL without the category name (e.g., /blog-post-permalink/), but I'd like to create a mod_rewrite rule to automatically redirect any requests for the previous format to the new, cleaner one. How can I use a mod_rewrite recipe to handle this, taking into account that I want to honor requests for the real WordPress directories that are in my webroot? 1 Answer Something as simple as: RewriteRule ^/[^/]+/([^/]+)/?$ /$2 [R] Perhaps would do it? That simple redirects /foo/bar/ to /bar That seems to work great with my testing so far. Thanks for the help! Joomla Blog/Wordpre...