Note that you can use URL Rewrite UI in IIS manager to create and edit the rewrite rules. That is much easier than manually editing XML in web.config files.

The 500 error may be because you have the rule with the same name defined in both web.config files - at the site root and in the /folder. When you define the rule in the /folder choose a different name and also make sure to include the <clear /> element at the beginning of the rule set: <rewrite>...

If I install Wordpress in the root, I can do this without any problems: http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/466/enabling-pretty-permalinks-in-wordpress/ It's installed at http://www.sub.domain.com/ IIS7, FastCGI, current Rewrite module I need to install another one at http://www.sub.domain.com/folder...

IIS FastCGI does support URL's that use path info (e.g. /index.php/foo/bar). When I tried it sometime ago I was able to use customized permalink structure. However, I used PHP 5.2.5 and Wordpress 2.2; may be latest version of PHP or Wordpress has some changes that break that? Do you get any errors...

The customize permalink structure "/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/" does not work on IIS 5.1, PHP 5.2.6 via FastCGI RTM and WordPress 2.5.1. I have set fastcgi.impersonate = 1 , cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 and cgi.force_redirect = 0 in the php.ini file with reference to http://learn...

The wordpress MU .htaccess contains the following rules. The highlighted rule is supposed to handle the URL for themes (as well as any other files in wp-content folder): RewriteEngine On RewriteBase BASE/ #uploaded file RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/$ index.php [L] RewriteRule ^(.*/)?files/(.*) wp-content...

Instead of editing the source .htaccess file and re-importing it you can edit the original mod_rewrite rules inside of the rule importer UI. As you make the edits the converted rules will be updated on the fly. Regarding not preserving stopProcessing flag when importing the rules - there is a bug in...