Worpress MU (current ver.) on IIS6 using ISAPI mod_rewrite. help please.

[blesseld]

Hey All,

 

I am attempting to install Worpress mu (multi user) on a windows server 2003 -  IIS6.

 

I have it installed, and the main blog is working, i can log in create users and add new blogs.

 

www.domain.com/blog  -  is the main directory

www.domain.com/blog/another-blog    <---the issue

 

I am using Subfolder for this install not subdomain.

 

So WPMU lets me create the new blog, then i visit the url like :www.domain.com/blog/another-blog  and it gives my my main domain 404 page.  So i take a look and realize that i did not setup the ISAPI mod_rewrite that is needed for IIS.

 

I get setup, and found that I need to paste this line into my wp-settings.php

 

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL'];

 

So i did.  Deleted the 2nd blog, and created a new one.  now when i visit: www.domain.com/blog/another-blog

 

I am getting a wordpress 404 page, but the URL is correct,  so one step further,  however, I checked one of the other domains on the server and it broke all site. 

 

ISAPI mod_rewrite says to take the .htaccess file in the root  WPMU directory, copy it's content, and past them into the  ISAPI mod_rewrite directory in the file called  httpd.conf

 

Here is the. htaccess file

 

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /blog/

#uploaded files
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !.*wp-content/plugins.*
RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content/blogs.php?file=$2 [L]

# add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^.*/wp-admin$
RewriteRule ^(.+)$ $1/ [R=301,L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
RewriteRule . - [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-.*) $2 [L]
RewriteRule  ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
RewriteRule . index.php [L]

<IfModule mod_security.c>
<Files async-upload.php>
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</Files>
</IfModule>

 

 

Here is a chunk of code from wp-settings, that talks about IIS

 

// Fix for IIS when running with PHP ISAPI
if ( empty( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] ) || ( php_sapi_name() != 'cgi-fcgi' && preg_match( '/^Microsoft-IIS\//', $_SERVER['SERVER_SOFTWARE'] ) ) ) {

// IIS Mod-Rewrite
if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL'])) {
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_ORIGINAL_URL'];
}
// IIS Isapi_Rewrite
else if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'])) {
	$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
}
else
{
	// Use ORIG_PATH_INFO if there is no PATH_INFO
	if ( !isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) && isset($_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO']) )
		$_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] = $_SERVER['ORIG_PATH_INFO'];

	// Some IIS + PHP configurations puts the script-name in the path-info (No need to append it twice)
	if ( isset($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) ) {
		if ( $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] == $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] )
			$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
		else
			$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] . $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];
	}

	// Append the query string if it exists and isn't null
	if (isset($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']) && !empty($_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'])) {
		$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] .= '?' . $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'];
	}
}
}

 

 

1. So what I am after is a solution to only affect the one domain: domain.com/blog  and not all domains on the server. 

 

2.  Resolve WPMU 404 error on 2nd blog : www.domain.com/blog/another-blog

 

This is way over my head... i do some PHP for making my websites more efficient but am in no way a programmer, and help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Thanks in advance, and if anyone has an idea and needs more info i'll post.