Wordpress on Crystaltech — permalink
August 6th, 2007 adminI’m going to assume that you know enough about wordpress installations to get by. You know how an FTP application works and have no problem installing wordpress and have the ability to see stuff. I’ve used wordpress on crystaltech for some time, and if you’ve gone through the process of installing it, you probably know that there are inherent problems that arise from using a php application (developed in an apache environment) on crystaltech (which uses IIS on windows boxes).
I’ve finally found the fix.
create a file called PHP.INI with the following two lines and put it in your root:
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1 cgi.force_redirect = 0
If you have a subdirectory called ‘blog’ ‘news’ ‘wordpress’ etc., do not put it there. Put it in your root.
In wp-admin, click ‘options’>’permalinks’. There type the following in the custom field:
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Go back to your wordpress front page, refresh your browser, and click the title of the story. If it doesn’t work, look at the address bar and look for irregularities and make the desired changes to the permalinks section of wp-admin.
If you have any problems, feel free to comment or email me. Lastly is the ability to upload images and edit theme files. You need to edit the permissions through Crystaltech’s administrator as you cannot change permissions through an ftp application. Upload your themes, then give write permissions to ‘everyone’ and thought should do it. The same goes for uploads and all other directories that you need to edit in the admin section. As far as i can tell, giving read/write access to everyone at those locations will not be a security risk as most of those directories are not crazy-important. You may need to create the directory wp-content\uploads to give it read/write permissions.