Follow the link at the beginning of this article. In a nutshell, create a new file called wp-404-handler.php and paste the code above into it. Save this file into the root of your site, then in the IIS site properties, change the 404 error code to the URL type, and point it at /wp-404-handler.php , or whatever you called it. You can then use the pretty permalinks

Im a wordpress 2.9 user and relatively new to code. I am just in the process of setting up pretty permalinks and am having the 404 troubles. Just a quick question:

Where do i actually embed this code to make things work.

Hope this makes sense

Thanks for your reply and sorry it’s taken me time to respond – was working on another workaround, hosting the quix plugin on a linux/apache version of wordpress and using iframe to reference, dirty but it works.

Should look at moving to Apache – but times limited.

Alec

I follow ur instruction, but it suppose to show http://www.abc.comy/category/marketing/page/2 but it end up showing http://www.abc.comy/marketing/page/2 without the category which is wrong url. Please advise. My setting in WP permalink as below:

Custom Structure : /%category%/%postname%/

Category base: category