joshuaball

Thank you for your reply (sorry for the delay – work and all ??

So, I began with a brand new site/db. I created a couple of categories, and made a few posts in the categories to run some tests.

Note, my \Windows\php.ini file has been modified to:
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
cgi.force_redirect = 0

I then modified my permalinks to
Date and name based
? https://www.chezball.com/index.php/2006/02/10/sample-post/

I don’t intend to use this permanently, but just as a test.

Now, when I click a post, the URL generate is: https://www.chezball.com/index.php/2006/02/10/child-cat-post/
And the response is:
No input file specified.
Which doesn’t appear to be a 500 error as you suggest in your notes.

Now I haven’t put any rewrite rules in
C:\Program Files\Helicon\ISAPI_Rewrite\httpd.ini
So, a failure is expected. However, I was expecting a different failure from the notes.

Which leads me to the next question. It appears that these rewrite rules should be created for me by wordpress. However that is not the case in on my page. That is, it looks like:
<?php if ( $permalink_structure && !$usingpi && !$writable ) : ?>
is not TRUE in wp-admin\options-permalink.php

I am not familiar with php, so I don’t know how to debug the script and figure out which variable is causing the problem.

Is there a common reason why this would not be the case for windows/iis setup? And why it would not dump my rewrite rules on the webpage?

Any thoughts here?