WordPress Multisite and the Windows IIS and URL Redirects not working

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  mizzouengineering · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 3:48 pm

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  Hello,

  I hope there are a few Windows WordPress Geeks out there.

  Here is the story, we have moved our WordPress installs on campus, we have gone from RackSpace which is on a Lynx server to Windows using IIS. I am not going to go into the change but it is the option I have.

  The Multi-sites work fine but we have a number of URLs that redirect to areas such as abcd.school.edu which would redirect to school.missouri.edu/abcd on the WordPress side. I have moved the DNS and they do come to the new server but I am not able to get the redirects to work in the IIS, although I know I have the redirect rule correct.

  They simply go to the main page for the site. I think the WordPress rules are grabbing the traffic before the redirects have chance to do their job. I have tried moving these rules up to the top of the Web.Config but it does not work.

  Any Ideas??

  Please do not say move to Lynx…….

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  amightywp · Member · Jul 9, 2014 at 9:11 am

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  Hi there,

  While we have all sorts of WordPress geeks here, there isn’t much that I can help you with, I’m afraid. You have landed on the forum for WordPress.com rather than WordPress.org, which is where you want to be since your site is self-hosted.

  I did take a look and in case you haven’t seen it, there’s a codex article which at least starts to delve in to issues with the URL Rewrite Module:

  http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

  But other than that, you’re going to want to check out the .org forums here:

  http://wordpress.org/support/view/all-topics

  Best of luck to you!