Comments on: IIRF Drupal, WordPress and IIS6 – How to get them working first time – Guaranteed!

By: trung

trung — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 20:20:31 +0000

Just quick question, which version of IIRF are you using in this tutorial?

By: mike

mike — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:10:07 +0000

Hello,
I’m following your tutorial on win 2k3, only I don’t have the “computers” box to select in object types

please help

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:25:56 +0000

thanks now on to magento!

By: Simon Nicol

Simon Nicol — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:16:56 +0000

@Ray
Congrats!!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:14:41 +0000

I FINALLY got it to work!!!! I had to add an iirf.ini file to the folder that contained the drupal files and a bit of code I snactched up form the internet and it worked….

By: Simon Nicol

Simon Nicol — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:12:06 +0000

Goodness, that’s a new one. I can’t think what to suggest, I’ve written some other posts about this elsewhere on this site. The only other person to take it to would be IonicShade himself, cos it just doesn’t make sense.

See what else is on this site or have a look at Ionic’s homepage, maybe he could help if you emailed him.

All the best
Simon

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:36:11 +0000

Simon, I have followed ur instructions to the letter and I have restarted my server but when I go look at the ISAPI filter it is not showing the green arrow. I have gone to drupal to engage the clean urls with no luck…any ideas? I’ve been working on this for 2 days now….Thanks for your time and efforts!

By: Simon Nicol

Simon Nicol — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 07:50:59 +0000

@Holmes,

Yes you are indeed. One thing to keep in mind is WordPress’ excellent SEO – in my opinion the best of the bunch is META SEO so it’s worth taking the time to copy over the META and Keyword info to maintain your search placement, also remember that when googlebot finds your new site you’ll invariably find that your site does ‘the Google bounce’ so you’ll disapear down the rankings, if not completely from the search engine until you get re-listed. This is nothing to worry about, but the process could take around a month to get back the rankings that you had.

Your URL re-writing is the way to go. Make sure that each re-write is marked as a ‘permanent redirect’. To re-wite your URL’s effectively it would be best to study REGEX. Regular expression matching can seem a bit daunting to start with, but there’s an excellent tutorial here http://www.regular-expressions.info/ you only need to remove the /index.php bit so it’s pretty straight forward.

All the best.

Simon.

P.S.

As an added thought because you’re using IIS6 I’ve written a post on optimising IIS6′s delivery of pages. (Google now take page optimisation as yet another criteria for search placement – so it’s well worth doing.) It just takes a few ‘tweaks’ to your server and you can get your pages being delivered at DOUBLE the speed – well worth taking a look. I have a post about how to do that here http://www.caspianit.co.uk/iis6-website-optimisation-for-webpagetest-org/.

By: holmes

holmes — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 00:00:11 +0000

Simon, I hate to bug you with this one, but you’re talking here about WordPress, Drupal, and IIS6, and that’s what I’m working with, so here goes:

Switching a site over to Drupal (example.com). Importing current WordPress blog (example.com/blog) into Drupal as well. So far, no problems.

Now I want to make sure that existing links will continue to work, so I need to go from:
example.com/blog/index.php/04/2009/blog-entry-title
to
example.com/blog/04/2009/blog-entry-title

Am I on the right path with IIRF? (Already using it for clean urls in Drupal)

Any help is hugely appreciated!

By: Simon Nicol

Simon Nicol — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:38:30 +0000

Have you re-started your server? That’s the only thing that you might need to do. If you’ve followed along every step is complete.