How to Setup WordPress Permalinks on Windows IIS ======================================= Place this file into the base directory of your WordPress installation to allow permalinks (or "pretty URLs") on Windows IIS.

web.config

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<configuration>

  <system.webServer>

    <rewrite>

      <rules>

        <rule name="wordpress" stopProcessing="true">

          <match url=".*" />

          <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">

            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />

            <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />

          </conditions>

          <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />

        </rule>

      </rules>

    </rewrite>

  </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Ok.. I try this code. It's working.. But When upload image through media library. Any image not loading, if I access through image url. Just showing the 404 error. Have any Idea?

Excellent, thank you very much for this. Saved hours of trawling through Wordpress forums.

Again, thanks guys - saved me a lot of time!

To make the image URL work, you'll need to tell the rule to stop processing if it hits the wp-content path
Within the conditions node, add this rule before all the others:

        <add input="{REQUEST_URI}" matchType="Pattern" pattern="^/wp-content/" negate="true" />

This should result in that url path returning images and other content.

Thanks, you saved my day! One question: what if the Wordpress website is located in a subfolder, i.e /blog, but I want it to be accessible from the main domain example.com? I know in Apache all I have to do is to keep an .htaccess copy in both the root and /blog directory, but how about in IIS?

Hi, I'm trying to upload an image into website .image is updated in database but not showing ,only gray color box is displaying in the media library.
I've tried to uninstall all plugins and the theme which i was using but didn't work

This was so helpful... I ended up creating a slightly different version for my situation where Wordpress was in a subdirectory and where I needed the REST api to be reachable. https://gist.github.com/jeremymoore/82bebfbf164a07f63ea3ef4cdf5a1cd7