This ISAPI filter removes the index.php from WordPress’s permalinks on IIS,making your permalinks more pretty and SEO friendly.

Because IIS does not support mod_rewrite module for rewriting URLs, so whenever you try to use permalinks, you always get something like this:

http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/2006/09/02/…../

this filter can remove the index.php from url automatically.it’s easy to use,just install it and no further configuration is necessary.

Now obviously you would need access to IIS to be able to install it, but even for hosting companies, it seems like a bit of a no-brainer.

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Unfortunately, the hosting package they had chosen supported PHP, but database support was beyond their price range.

That set me wondering if WordPress actually required MySQL to operate. I knew about SQLite as a file-based relational database, so I turned to Google and searched for “WordPress sqlite”. What I discovered was a plugin called PDO (SQLite) For WordPress by Justin Adie which abstracts the database functionality into a separate layer. At the moment, it supports the original MySQL, and SQLite.

This was exactly what I was looking for. It was easy to set-up and is working very well, as you can see.

Another less elegant solution was to create a replacement 404 error page that would perform the redirection. This worked, but when the redirection occurred, any POSTed values were lost, so no forms could be used.

I thought all was lost until yesterday, I stumbled across an article on Microsoft’s IIS site.

This walkthrough will guide you through how to enable “Pretty Permalinks” for blog posts in the WordPress blog engine installed on IIS 7.0. Typically, without URL rewriting functionality on a Web server, WordPress users have to use “Almost Pretty” URLs (for example, http://example.com/index.php/yyyy/mm/dd/post-name/). This was the primary option for users who chose to host WordPress on IIS. Now, with the URL rewrite module available, you can have “Pretty Permalinks” (for example, http://example.com/year/month/day/post-name/) for WordPress blogs hosted on IIS 7.0.

This solved all my problems for a major project I’m involved in. It involves the URL Rewrite Technical Preview that can be found here.

[Via: IIS.net]

The required RSS feed is dynamically generated using PHP as are the thumbnails so you would only have to provide a gallery of images.

I’ve zipped up the code here.

The WordPress plugin I chose is this one by Semiologic.

A very valuable tool if you’re interested in site usage statistics.

Upon launch, it detected all of my previous settings so I went to edit the settings for each of my blogs.

I clicked Weblog -> Edit Weblog Settings… -> Update Account Information -> Next >.

An dialog popped up stating that it had received a “(412) Precondition Failed” error.

After some investigation on Google, I discovered that the “Bad Behavior” plug-in was causing the problem.

On disabling this plug-in, Live Writer was able to update it’s settings properly.

So if you are using WordPress and have “Bad Behavior” enabled, disable it and your problems will go away…