Wordpress home page resulting in 404 error

I've searched for this issue and nothing I ha开发者_如何学编程ve seen so far seems to be the same issue as me.

I have a Wordpress blog setup under a sub folder of a domain ( /development ). Everything works fine. I then changed the permalinks to nice links. Now everything still works fine, EXCEPT for the home page, which results in a 404 on the IIS server.

If I manually put "index.php" after it, the home page appears, but if I don't, it errors. The thing is, the home link that wordpress generates points only to "/" (which is actually what I want anyway).

Here's something interesting...if I then create an index.html file under the root of where Wordpress is and navigate to the home page again, I get the HTML file returned. It's almost as if this server doesn't default to index.php but will happily look for index.html.

I think this might be an issue with it being on IIS. How can I tell it to look for index.php as default?

I have no way of installing additional components / software and it's on a shared server. I don't mind having "index.php" but I'd like the home page to work without it.

Please help if you can.

Many thanks, Michael.

If you are in IIS7 you need to add index.php as a default document type. To do that

1. open IIS
2. select your website under Sites
3. Under IIS subcategory choose Default Document
4. Add index.php as a default document type.

IIS6 I don't know the answer, but I found this on SO. Different Default Document Type in Subfolder on IIS 6

Different ways of using - or not being able to use - permalinks on IIS: http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Permalinks_without_mod_rewrite

Be sure you are changing and saving permalinks from within Admin so the permalink setting is changed in the database, too.