[wp-hackers] permalinks with pathinfo

[Otto]

Switch from the GoDaddy Windows account to the GoDaddy Linux account.

Really. That will solve almost all your problems. I say that as
somebody who used GoDaddy hosting for years.

-Otto



On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:11 PM, IC IC <icwordpress at gmail.com> wrote:
> I did not know that wordpress had an IIS version. I wonder what the
> difference is.
>
> GoDaddy has a special interface and they do the install.
>
> I wonder if the problem is with the web.config
>
> Obviously, wordpress can write to it so I can change my urls from p=123 to
> /index.php/2011/11/2/whatever
>
> GoDaddy provides 0 support in this matter telling this is a wordpress issue
> which I don'tthink it is.
> This matter must have to do more with url rewrite, iis and web.config.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Dagan Henderson <
> Dagan.Henderson at epyllion.com> wrote:
>
>> I haven't played with WordPress on IIS, but I'm assuming the issue relates
>> to the fact that WordPress relies on mod_rewrite in Apache to disguise
>> index.php. Which version of WordPress did you install? There's an
>> IIS-specific version available here:
>> http://wordpress.org/wordpress-3.2.1-IIS.zip
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com [mailto:
>> wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of IC IC
>> Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 1:48 PM
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: [wp-hackers] permalinks with pathinfo
>>
>> With a new godady windows account, and with a fresh installation of
>> wordpress with no plugins activated, I am having the following issue.
>>
>> When I go to the permalinks screen, I get to see this
>>
>> Day and name    http://mysite.com/index.php/2011/11/22/sample-post/
>> Month and name    http://mysite.com/index.php/2011/11/sample-post/
>>
>> as opposed to this;
>>
>> Day and name    http://mysite.com//2011/11/22/sample-post/
>> Month and name    http://mysite.com/2011/11/sample-post/
>>
>> Obviously, that index.php in the middle is not my choice. The question how
>> did it get there? It doe not appear with my other wordpress/godaddy sites.
>>
>> If I click on the "day and name" common settings option for exammple, the
>> custom structure is populated as
>> /index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
>>
>> and when I save those changes, ( thoug I do not want that structure), the
>> site works;  all permalinks are updated to work with the name structure. so
>> my contactus page becomes http://mysite.com/contactus instead of the
>> page_id=3
>>
>> When I select custom structure and make it /%postname%/ ( as I wanted) , I
>> end up getting the permalinks to be updated as I like except that I end up
>> 404s on all urls. When I insert the index.php in the middle on a 404 URL,
>> wordpress is able to find the page.
>>
>> Any insight in this matter is appreciated.
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