Why I can't change the permanent links?

davidm23 · 10-12-2009, 12:38 PM

hi there,

I worked on a simple html/css website and it gone great. Now there was an offer to add a wp blog to that. Done that too. But it is not showing permanent links as normal blogs do like %date%name% Its simply showing the blogname/?p=number what is wrong actually I tried the permanent link plugin too..

didn't work. Do you have any idea?

Here is the blog link. you can see the permanent link as page numbers not as the titles. newgenresoft.com/seoblog/?p=74

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**htmlbasictutor** · 10-12-2009, 02:05 PM

Using Permalinks - Wordpress Codex

davidm23 · 10-12-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by htmlbasictutor

Using Permalinks - Wordpress Codex

Tried all these things already.. Still no idea

**htmlbasictutor** · 10-12-2009, 05:38 PM

Go down to the section called Fixing Permalink Problems on the page I already referenced.

danielbuttspro · 10-13-2009, 06:34 PM

Have same problem, but there is a plugin for this if I remember right dont know the name though

davidm23 · 11-03-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by danielbuttspro

Have same problem, but there is a plugin for this if I remember right dont know the name though

I tried with several plugins too.. the actual problem is with our hosting. its windows hosting iis6. It's pretty hard to change it here. So left it behind untill we move to the new linux hosting..

megamoose · 11-04-2009, 03:04 AM

I'm not sure if the IIS servers support .htaccess. I know the .htaccess file is an Apache feature, and IIS doesn't use it.

The .htaccess file is what your blog would, by default, need to use to redirect your links to the correct page using mod_write.

This is taken from the link htmlbasictutor posted:

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"Pretty" permalinks usually require mod_rewrite, and IIS (common on Windows servers) does not support mod_rewrite. (If you are using Apache 2.0.54, on Windows, mod_rewrite may work, provided it is enabled in apache\conf\httpd.conf.)

If you are using IIS 7 and have admin rights on your server, you can use Microsoft's URL Rewrite Module instead.

Find that paragraph on the page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks

It gives you step by step instructions of how to use Microsoft's alternative to mod_redirect