I have an Arabic WordPress site hosted on a Windows Server with IIS7 (I can’t move to Linux hosting). I tried to change the permalinks settings in WordPress to this: /%postname%/
But when I access any article for example like this: http://www.example.com/تجربة/ I’m being redirected to the homepage, same thing happens with categories and tags.
I don’t have access to IIS settings except for the web.config (I’m on shared hosting). Here’s my web.config settings:
<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>
I’m running on PHP 5.5.
This issues is caused due to IIS does not recognize the multi language urls,
You need to add the following code at the end of the wp-config.php file: