Question

I’ve got a NopCommerce site (ASP.NET MVC) and I’m trying to add a WordPress blog as a subfolder of the main site.

The installation of WordPress was fine, all config files have been created and the blog works fine if you browser through it.

However, I now want to setup pretty permalinks by using the name of the post.

Normally when you setup permalinks, it generates either a .htaccess file for Apache or a web.config for Windows IIS7 Url Rewrites.

When I try and save the permalink settings, it sits there trying to load and eventually times out.

I’m guessing that because ASP.NET MVC uses Routes, the WordPress site doesn’t know what to setup.

Can anyone offer me guidance on how I can get the permalinks setup? Do I need to setup a Route on my MVC site perhaps?

Answer 1

In the end I copied a web.config file from one of my existing blogs that is on a standard C# website.

Normally WordPress generates the web.config file itself. I can only assume that WordPress hasn’t been setup yet to handle installation on .NET MVC websites.

Creating a web.config file, in the root on the WordPress blog files, containing the following code should get it working:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear/>
                <add value="index.php"/>
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <rewrite>
            <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="wildcard">
                <match url="*"/>
                <conditions>
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
                    <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
                </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>
            </rule>
        </rewrite>
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>