Getting Permalinks Working in Wordpress on IIS
This is a frequent question for most IIS users on how to get permalinks to work in Wordpress, it’s fairly simple really once you know how of course. So the problems are, you’re using IIS so using mod_rewrite won’t work, you’re on a shared server so installing a mod_rewrite alternative for IIS is not available either. You can have URLs with a index.php in them (for example http://www.yourdomain.com/index.php/2009/03/17/getting-permalinks-working-in-wordpress-on-iis) but they’re pretty ugly looking and doesn’t fit into the URL standards (in other words, it’s just nasty).
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