With the new easy cgi windows hosting control panel, this old method can’t word anymore, and your wordpress blog will return error whenever your url are using permalink. Your homepage can work as its just index.php working at the backend. But when you trying to view page or posting with url permalink redirect, you will get error page or server page not found etc.

This is when you will require httpd.ini setup for your easy cgi windows hosting. Copy and paste below into a new file named “httpd.ini” and upload it to ftp server and place it at same folder as the index.php would. This httpd.ini is customised for wordpress blog and can be run at any windows asp server or easy cgi windows hosting server. This easy cgi review site is running wordpress setup at windows asp hosting plan at easy cgi shared hosting plan with windows package.

[ISAPI_Rewrite]

### subdomain redirect ###
RewriteCond Host: (?:.+\.)?easycgireview\.org

# For normal content & image files to go through
RewriteRule /images/(.*) /images/$1 [L]
RewriteRule /easycgi.php /easycgi.php [I,L]

# For file-based wordpress content (i.e. theme), admin, etc.
RewriteRule /wp-(.*) /wp-$1 [I,L]

# For normal wordpress content, via index.php
RewriteRule ^/$ /index.php [L]
RewriteRule /(.*) /index.php/$1 [L]

Option 1, you can try getting a url redirect plugin for your iis server. Get the support team to setup this. And later you configure your website to use the plugin configuration file to do the trick. Note that this method can work, but its going to be costly, and it require some technical skill to configure the config file for the plugin. So forget about this! Its took me over $150 dollars and over 3 days work trying to get this running. And i failed.

Option 2, you can upload a simple “wp-404-handler.php” file that uses custom error 404 redirection script. Login to you easy cgi control panel, and go to custom 404 setting and add this .php file to your custom 404 redirection destination. And its done! Took you not more than 5 minutes to do it!

<?php
$qs = $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = substr($qs, strpos($qs, ':80')+3);
$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
include('index.php');
?>

1) Add this content to “wp-404-handler.php” and upload this file to your easy cgi ftp root /yourdomain/. For my case, it will be “/easycgireview.org/wp-404-handler.php”

2) Login to your easy cgi control panel > Web site/domain management > select your domain > Custom error pages > 404 > add in “wp-404-handler.php” > save changes > done!

3) Test your wordpress permalink url:
http://www.easycgireview.org/easycgi/easy-cgi-coupons
http://www.easycgireview.org/easy-cgi-dns-domain-nameserver
http://www.easycgireview.org/2008/05

There are other option like mod_rewrite or php.ini configuration. Trust me, i had been through most of it, and they don’t work like the custom 404 redirection. Its too simple to be true! If you are looking for wordpress permalink url redirection, this article will help you.

More useful resources:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks
http://tech.einaregilsson.com/2007/07/30/pretty-wordpress-permalinks-on-iis/
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/119303

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