If you are hosting a wordpress envirement on a windows server there a few things to look out for. One of them is creating a web.config file.
A standart wordpress system comes with a .htaccess file to manage the routing of the subpages. This one you have to replace.
WordPress multisite web.config file
Just create a new file called web.config in your wordpress base-folder and add this xml-code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<!--<security>
<authentication>
<basicAuthentication enabled="false"/>
<anonymousAuthentication enabled="false"/>
</authentication>
</security>-->
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^index\.php$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="None" />
</rule>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+)" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="wp-includes/ms-files.php?file={R:2}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Redirect" url="{R:1}wp-admin/" redirectType="Permanent" />
</rule>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 4" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAny">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" />
<add input="{URL}" pattern="([a-zA-Z0-9\./_-]+)\.axd" />
</conditions>
<action type="None" />
</rule>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 5" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^[_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/(wp-(content|admin|includes).*)" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 6" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="WordPress Rule 7" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="." ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>Your website should work right away.
If you were looking for the web.config of a normal wordpress installation check out this article.
Hey, I had 2 days finding a solution for my Folder-based WordPress. At the end it was the rule #2 about the ms-files.php that allow me to see loaded the JS and CSS. I used the WordPress code example, but didn’t work. Thanks Bro, you made me go to sleep early today, hah!