Wordpress permalinks error 404 on IIS

Question

i have enable permalinks on my wordpress site and now every page returns 404 error. The site is hosted in IIS 8.5

the web.config file has the following rule inside

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

<directoryBrowse enabled="false"/>
<rewrite>
  <rules>
  <clear/>
        <rule name="wordpress" stopProcessing="true">

      <match url=".*" />

      <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">

        <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>

what can i do to fix that and make permalinks work?

Answer 1

For permalinks to work, you need to resave the permalinks in the permalinks admin section of WP. The same applies when you change the url structure, even if permalinks were already in use.

Answer 2

You need to put this code <?php flush_rewrite_rules( True ); ?> inside your functions.php file to flush the rewrite rules.

Reference codex.wordpress.org