HowTo: Use WordPress Permalinks on IIS

at http://zachis.it/blog/7-dangers-of-using-windows-server-on-a-wordpress-installation/

the thing that guy says about Permalinks isn’t accurate at all (not that the other things that he says are any accurate that is). WordPress Codex have documentation on how to configure URL rewriting in web.config that is necessery for Permalinks to work in IIS.

e.g. at http://ClipFlair.net, if you press the "about" icon you’re taken to a WordPress site that runs on IIS and uses permalinks fine and hides the index.php too from the URL

in its web.config I have the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>

        <httpErrors>
            <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
            <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/index.php?error=404" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
        </httpErrors>

        <!– Needed for WordPress Permalinks –>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>

                <rule name="Main Rule" 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/{R:0}" /> –>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>

            </rules>
        </rewrite>

        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.html" />
                <add value="index.php" />
                <add value="default.aspx" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>

    </system.webServer>
</configuration>