This walkthrough describes how to enable “Pretty Permalinks” for blog posts in the WordPress blog engine that is installed on IIS 7 and above. Typically, without URL rewriting functionality on a Web server, WordPress users must use “Almost Pretty” URLs, for example, http://contoso.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/. By using the URL Rewrite module, you can use “Pretty Permalinks,” for example, http://example.com/year/month/day/post-name/, for WordPress blogs that are hosted on IIS.
Prerequisites
This walkthrough requires the following prerequisites:
IIS 7 or above with FastCGI and PHP installed. If you need to install PHP, follow the instructions in this article.
WordPress installed. If you need to install WordPress, follow the instructions in this article or use the instructions from the official WordPress site.
URL Rewrite installed.
Note that for the purposes of this walkthrough it is assumed that WordPress is installed in a Web site root directory. If WordPress is installed in a subdirectory, then the rewrite rules that are used in this walkthrough should be included in the Web.config file that is located within the same subdirectory where the WordPress files are.
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