Jamie Le Souef

Update: I forgot to mention that you need to have “Custom Error Documents” turned on. To do this in plesk, Navigate to your domains hosting page, click on “Setup” under Hosting. Scroll down to Services and select “Custom Error Documents” and then click ok.

Edited - 06/08/07 2:27pm

I’m going to step you through how I went about installing Nathan Moinvaziri’s plugin and set up Wordpress 2.2 to use Permalinks in an IIS6 enviroment with Plesk 8 installed.NOTE: This worked for me, and my hosting environment. I have no idea if it will work for everyone. I will not be held responsible for any damage you do to your blog. You have been warned.

Configure Plesk

Log into Plesk

Navigate to your domains control page.

Click on the icon “Web Directories”

Click on the tab “Error Documents”

Locate the entrie that reads “404 Not Found” and click on it. You may need to navigate to the next page to see it.

Drop down the “Type” box and select “URL”

In the “Location Box” type “/” (Without the quotation marks)

Click “Ok”

Log out of Plesk

Visit “http://www.nathanm.com/myprojects/#plugin” (opens in a new window)

Find the Plugin “Wordpress - Remove Index.php from Permalinks in IIS Plugin”

Upload the php file “removeindex.php” to your wordpress plugins directory
Log into Wordpress admin.
Click on “Plugins”

Locate the “Remove index.php” plugin and click on “Activate”

Click on “Options” then “Permalinks”

Set your Permalinks Structure. First click one of the common options. Then click on the “Custom, specify below” box and remove “index.php”. I use /%year%/%category%/%postname%/ for my structure.

Click “Update Permalinks Structure”

And your done

Check to make sure that everything is working. If you have sitemaps, it’s best to re generate them and submit them to google. The old ?p=34 strings will still work though. Test everything.

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