Trying to have pretty Permalinks on wordpress sites without the pesky index.php show up on URL and mess with SEO. In wordpress, if I put structure as https://site1.com/post-name/ I get 404 errors for all pages in the menu with following info: Requested URL: https://site1.com:443/site1folder/page-name/ Physical path: e:\web\root\site1folder\page-name\ If I put structure as https://site1.com/index,php/post-name/ they work fine but then index.php shows up on browser URL and is not good for SEO. Below is what's in web.config in root: <rule name="https://site1.com" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="(.*)" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.site1\.com$" /> </conditions> <action type="Redirect" url="https://site1.com/{R:1}" /> </rule> <rule name="http://site2.com" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="(.*)" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www\.site2\.com$" /> </conditions> <action type="Redirect" url="http://site2.com/{R:1}" /> </rule> <rule name="site1.com" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="(.*)" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?site1\.com$" /> <add input="{PATH_INFO}" pattern="^/site1folder($|/)" negate="true" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" url="\site1folder\{R:0}" /> </rule> <rule name="site2.com" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true"> <match url="(.*)" /> <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false"> <add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^(www\.)?site2\.com$" /> <add input="{PATH_INFO}" pattern="^/site2folder($|/)" negate="true" /> </conditions> <action type="Rewrite" url="\site2folder\{R:0}" /> </rule> The sites are responding to their URLs so I assume the web.config in root is working fine. In the site1folder, I have web.config with following code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <configuration> <system.webServer> <defaultDocument> <!-- Set the default document --> <files> <remove value="index.php" /> <add value="index.php" /> </files> </defaultDocument> <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed"/> <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard"> <match url="*" /> <conditions> <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> What am I missing or need to do so index.php doesn't show up on browser URL?
Fix for Local Servers Often designers and developers install WordPress on their computers using a local server for testing purposes. If you want to use pretty permalinks, then you need to enable the rewrite_module in the Apache configuration of your MAMP, WAMP, or XXAMP. Regards, Bruce
