Wordpress site help!!

[Bullfrog Profile]

I have a 2003 server with IIS6. Wordpress 3.5.2 Here is issue:

Set up website and as per usual with IIS6, pretty URL's don't work. I installed ISAPI_Rewrite 3.0 (Trial until we verify it works then will purchase license).

No matter what link I click, it always goes to 'Home' page.
Permalink is set to custom /%category%/%postname%

httpd.conf is empty, .htaccess has the following:

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.101

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

I have tried different settings based on different blogs, but nothing seems to work. Any ideas please??

Website is www.christiescare.com I will be leaving it up until I find a solution, or end of day when I will put old site back (until tomorrow when I will try again)

[HeliconAndrew]

Hello,

Here's an article that has proven to work - http://www.helicontech.com/articles/isa ... wordpress/
Your issues might be related to: a) permissions - http://www.helicontech.com/isapi_rewrit ... nstall.htm b) you may have a third party software installed like PLESK, ColfFusion, SiteCOre, etc. Do you have any of these installed?

Regards
Andrew

[Bullfrog Profile]

I have no 3rd party software added. I tried the link you sent before I did anything else. No go. As far as I can see, permissions are fine. It has to be something simple as I have a very vanilla install. I just don't know what it is.

[HeliconAndrew]

"When in doubt - use logs." (c)

Please, enable logging and lets take a look at the testing request you're making. Logging issues are described in FAQ - http://www.helicontech.com/forum/10648-FAQ.html

Regards
Andrew

[Bullfrog Profile]

Ok, went through it, got log files. It gave me the forbidden page when I went through to see if it worked, so that is good! Do I put entries from log files in here?

[HeliconAndrew]

You can. If you have concerns about revealing some info about the site, you can either remove the first part of each line(it's easy to replace it in notepad) or you can shoot us an email with the log. DOn't forget to clean rewrite.log, save it, run a testing wordpress request and only then send us the log. Or it'll be too long.

Regards
Andrew

[Bullfrog Profile]

Hope this isn't too much


93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /index.php
93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (1) Htaccess process request d:\home\default\christiescare.com\htdocs\.htaccess
93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (3) applying pattern '^index\.php$' to uri 'index.php'
93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (1) Rewrite URL to >> /index.php
93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (2) rewrite 'index.php' -> '/index.php'
93.152.16.45 93.152.16.45 Thu, 25-Jul-2013 15:15:06 GMT [www.christiescare.com/sid#972442513][rid#21899224/initial] (2) internal redirect with /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

[Bullfrog Profile]

Actually, looks useless to me, all the slider stuff is on home page, and home page is only one that works properly. Maybe it will show you something

[Bullfrog Profile]

here is one that shows just a request to another page. This may be more useful? And MUCH shorter

(2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /about-us
(1) Htaccess process request C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite3\httpd.conf
(1) Htaccess process request d:\home\default\christiescare.com\htdocs\.htaccess
(3) applying pattern '^index\.php$' to uri 'about-us'
(3) applying pattern '.' to uri 'about-us'
(4) RewriteCond: input='D:\home\Default\christiescare.com\htdocs\about-us' pattern='!!-f' => matched
(4) RewriteCond: input='D:\home\Default\christiescare.com\htdocs\about-us' pattern='!!-d' => matched
(1) Rewrite URL to >> /index.php
(2) rewrite 'about-us' -> '/index.php'
(2) internal redirect with /index.php [INTERNAL REDIRECT]

[HeliconAndrew]

Conclusions:

a) ISAPI_Rewrite is working as expected
b) .htaccess is read and there's no problem with permissions(as the rules are processing the requests)
c) need to tweak the rules

Please, try using the rule provided to you in the article for /post_id/post_name:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(\d+)/[^/]+/?$ index.php?p=$1 [NC,L]

or the following for the post_name:

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RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php [NC,NS,L]

This is about some settings in IIS or wordpress that give you headache.

Regards
Andrew

[Bullfrog Profile]

Still no go . I don't understand why if you select 'about-us' page, it is redirecting it back to index.php?

Also, should there be anything in the httpd.conf file

[HeliconAndrew]

Whatever you put in httpd.conf will be applied to he whole server and will affect all the sites. In your case .htaccess is the way.

Shoot us an email. We'll be able to help you remotely via RDP.

Regards
Andrew

[Bullfrog Profile]

Email sent. Hope we can fix, boss back tomorrow and I made company buy program lol.