[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10425: Improvements to IIS7 Rewriting Code

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#10425: Improvements to IIS7 Rewriting Code
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 Reporter:  bforchhammer  |       Owner:  ryan          
     Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  low           |   Milestone:  Future Release
Component:  Permalinks    |     Version:  2.8.1         
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:                
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 #8974 introduced a set of functions and changes which allow to
 automatically generate Rewrite Rules for Wordpress installs running on
 IIS7.

 There are some issues with that implementation that I think are worth
 being written down and discussed somewhere so here we go:

 1) There's no '''"Verbose" option''' for IIS rules; while I can't say when
 it would make sense to have a verbose listing of all WordPress rewrite
 rules in `.htaccess`/`web.config` it might be something that should be
 available for both systems?

 2) IIS does not add '''non wordpress rules''' (`$non_wp_rules`) to the
 `web.config` file (`iis7_url_rewrite_rules()`) which means that any custom
 rewriting which plugins/users can do on apache don't work on IIS.

 3) At the moment it's assumed that there is only ONE single rule needed
 for IIS. Especially when looking at the merge with WPMU this is going to
 become a problem because WPMU uses '''multiple rules'''. Every rule has to
 have a unique name and functions like `iis7_rewrite_rule_exists()` and
 `iis7_delete_rewrite_rule()` only look for one rule with name "wordpress".
 Custom Rules (see 2) also won't work without a change here. For a partial
 fix see misc.php in
 [http://trac.mu.wordpress.org/attachment/ticket/991/991-webconfig.patch
 Patch on MU #991])

 Any comments?

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