WordPress MU

I am attempting to install wpmu on a windows server running IIS 6. Is there some way around the mod_rewrite apache module requirement?

Here's a bad hack... install linux? HA!

You could, alternately, install apache for windows.
You could also keep your win server listening on port 80 AND install apache2 - configure it to listen to port 81 or something similar. Running both win & apache would be painfully slow though.

Why the need to serve from win anyway? ASP? There is an option to configure apache w/ APS and .NET support now.

Just don't feel comfortable working in a linux environment? I don' t blame you there. it's a bad word to learn and it takes a long time. There is, however, no time like the present! Try Ubuntu or Kubuntu - it's a snap to install and comes ready to go out of the box.

Bah! I saw the WordpressU and was super excited! Then I saw the mod_rewrite and back into my usual slump. Whoa is me!!

I'd happily become a convert it it were only that easy - with a couple of dozen sites configed on IIS and not a clue how to fix something going wrong on apache - I'm stuck where I'm stuck.

Anyone had any luck with these rewrite alternatives for IIS?

There are a couple of IIS addons that can give you mod_rewrite style results, but I'm not too sure how well they would work with Wordpress or MU.

You might wanna try what I did, although I did it on normal wp. See this post.

There are no plans to support IIS at this time.

well you should support IIS 6
cant see why cant just work with ISAPI_Rewrite

why limit it just to apache !

IIS7 with FastCGI might be what you're looking for, but then you'll have to code your own rewrite.

Has anybody been able to run WordPressMU on IIS?

These may help:

http://codex.wordpress.org/User:ringmaster/IIS

http://cornwall.backtalk.com/archives/2004/07/07/15/16/31/

I tried IIS Mod-Rewrite with WordPress-su and it worked perfect.

Here is a very useful guide: Clean permalinks for IIS using .htaccess

I'm not sure if it will work for WordPress-mu though.

Craig3, thanks for the link you posted! It's really helpful except for one issue for which I have posted a solution that make everything work perfect on IIS.

http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=6208
http://mu.wordpress.org/forums/topic.php?id=5483

Thanks again!