Question

I’m getting the dreaded “No Input File Specified” error when using pretty permalinks, but I think it’s a WordPress problem, not a rewrite module problem. I’m on IIS7 and WP 3.4.2. The pretty permalink is:

http://www.mydomain.com/blog/2012/09/20/post-name/

and this is correctly rewriting to:

http://www.mydomain.com/blog/index.php/2012/09/20/post-name/

I think the rewrite is correct because when I go to this latter url manually, I still get the error. So I think the problem lies in WordPress. For completeness, though, here’s the rewrite rule:

   <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^blog/(.+)" />
      <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="/blog/index.php/{R:1}" />
    </rule>

There are a lot of posts on this issue on SO, but they all seem to be rewrite issues, so I don’t think this is a duplicate of any question where the problem is the one I’m having.

Answer 1

Well, it was a rewrite problem, sort of. In the pattern above, I didn’t take into account that the site is on a shared host, and /blog is actually pointing to \subfolder\blog. Changing it as follows fixed it:

   <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^blog/(.+)" />
      <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="/subfolder/blog/index.php/{R:1}" />
    </rule>

This isn’t ideal, because I had to hardcode the name of the subfolder, but for now, I’ll take it.