Wordpress, IIS and a crapload of hacking.

I’ve been setting up another Wordpress site on an IIS server (which is proving a definite nightmare, with permissions and all that jazz…). When I discovered my favourtie file/image manager plugin by by Per Soderlind is a dud on IIS, I decided to implement a WYSIWYG editor for the client instead, using Dean’s FCKEditor plugin complete with it’s own file/upload manager.

The FCKEditor plugin by Dean is fantastic. The only snitch I ran into was that the filemanager in FCKEditor did not let you delete uploaded files (which is a bit naff, no?). A few clicks on trust Google lead me to bram.us’s nifty delete hack tutorial for the filemanager in FCKEditor, allowing you to *gasp* magically delete files! Rock on! Problem one solved!

Problem two involved IIS and ‘pretty permalink’ urls. Since IIS doesn’t do mod_rewrite like our good friend Apache, IIS people were basically screwed with urls looking like cat vomit… until Binary Fortress came up with this funky WordPress URL Rewrite plugin/ISAPI filter for IIS. You’ll have to have either VNC or Remote Desktop / Administrator access to your IIS server to run this filter, but indeed it works damn well.

Thanks fellas!