Installing Network on IIS8.5 hosted site

  • Resolved beggemey

    (@beggemey)


    7 years ago

    Installed a fresh install of wordpress on an IIS 8.5 server. I followed the instructions here: https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network. When I finish the install by copying the new code into my web.config file, sign out and back in. The “My Sites” link does not show up in the dashboard. However, when I click on network setup under tools it says “warning: an existing wordpress network was detected.” I have read that the automatically generated code isn’t always correct. Here’s the code it generated.

    "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <rewrite>
            <rules>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^index\.php$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^wordpress/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}wp-admin/" redirectType="Permanent" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="None" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^wordpress/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="wordpress/{R:1}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^wordpress/([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="wordpress/{R:2}" />
                </rule>
                <rule name="WordPress Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="." ignoreCase="false" />
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
                </rule>
            </rules>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>"
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  • Thread Starter beggemey

    (@beggemey)

    Is the above code correct for enabling network on an IIS web server? I have been researching this for 2 or 3 days and haven’t found a solution that works.

    Thread Starter beggemey

    (@beggemey)

    This problem was entirely caused by me. For some reason I moved the following lines to above the “That’s all, stop editing!” line in the wp-config.php. Moving them back to the bottom of the file where they belong fixed the problem.

    /** Absolute path to the WordPress directory. */
    if ( !defined(‘ABSPATH’) )
    define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);

    /** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
    require_once(ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’);

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