Web.config WordPress rewrite rules next to Magento

Question

I've installed Magento on IIS in folder: E:\mydomain\wwwroot (I already have it all running correctly).

I have no deeper folder magento, I placed all files directly in the wwwroot folder, so:

wwwroot\app
wwwroot\downloader
wwwroot\errors
wwwroot\includes
etc...

UPDATE: since I'm on IIS my .htaccess is ignored completely and my web.config rules are used instead. Here's my web.config in folder e:\mydomain\wwwroot:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 

<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Magento SEO: remove index.php from URL">
          <match url="^(?!index.php)([^?#]*)(\\?([^#]*))?(#(.*))?" />
            <conditions>
              <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/(media|skin|js)/" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
              <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
              <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
            </conditions>
          <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:0}" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

Next, I wanted to install WordPress. I unzipped all files in folder e:\mydomain\wwwroot\wordpress

Browsed to www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/install.php, where I configured everything for my database. Everything was installed correctly.

I then navigate to http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php where I type my credentials. I seem to be logged in and am redirected to http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/ But there I receive an empty page. I enabled detailed error message in IIS following this article: http://www.iis.net/learn/troubleshoot/diagnosing-http-errors/how-to-use-http-detailed-errors-in-iis I also checkec with Fiddler and see that I receive a 500 error:

GET /wordpress/wp-admin/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.mydomain.com Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,/;q=0.8 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.76 Safari/537.36 Referer: http://www.mydomain.com/wordpress/wp-login.php Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate,sdch Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8,nl;q=0.6 Cookie: wordpress_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7C2d8edb4fc6618f290fadb49b035cad31; wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wordpress_logged_in_fabec4083cf12d8de89c98e8aef4b7e3=floran%7C1381236774%7Cbf822163926b8b8df16d0f1fefb6e02e

HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error Content-Type: text/html Server: Microsoft-IIS/7.5 X-Powered-By: PHP/5.4.14 X-Powered-By: ASP.NET Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 12:56:03 GMT Content-Length: 0

My WordPress web.config in folder e:\mydomain\wwwroot\wordpress contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
    <rewrite>
      <rules>
            <rule name="wordpress" patternSyntax="Wildcard">
                <match url="*"/>
                    <conditions>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true"/>
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true"/>
                    </conditions>
                <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php"/>
            </rule></rules>
    </rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>

I also want my WordPress articles to be available on www.mydomain.com/blog instead of www.mydomain.com/wordpress

Ofcourse my admin links for Magento and Wordpress should also work.

How can I configure my web.config files to achieve the above?

Answer 1

It might be worth turning on detailed error messages in IIS so you can find out what's causing that 500 error. By default IIS will not show detailed errors unless you're requesting the page from localhost.