IIS web.config (not well-formed XML error)

[salderman]

Okay let’s get first lot of support questions out of the way
Windows 2012 R2 (VPS)
PHP 5.4
Wordpress 4.2.4
Read FAQ / Read Instructions for IIS
Tried both Medium recommended profiles
Removed and reactivated HMWP (just in case)
recycled app pools after each change
flushed cache

Now:
IIS rejects quite a number of rules the plugin creates
1 – Plugin generates duplicate rule “names” like HWMP Plugin146
Confirmed – after troubleshooting proved IIS was correct by changing the name on one of the duplicates to HWMP Plugin146a – error goes away, but this happened for 8 rules (4 duplicates)
2 – missing [ or ] on:
rule name=”HMWP Dir_List12″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^(((wp-content|wp-includes)/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\/]*))|(wp-admin/(!network\/?)([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\/]+)))(\.txt|/)$” /
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”index.php?page_num=999999999″ appendQueryString=”true” />
</rule>
Troubleshooting there are matching [] in the match, IIS must be looking for additional items to be bracketed (did not attempt a fix) confirmed the error from the IIS GUI Rule Test
3 – Rule contains a form that IIS does not accept
<rule name=”HMWP Style138″ stopProcessing=”true”>
<match url=”^template/main\.css” />
<action type=”Rewrite” url=”/index.php?style_wrapper=1&XCGZF_hide_my_wp=1234″ appendQueryString=”true” />
</rule>
Confirmed – the string =”/index.php?style_wrapper=1&XCGZF_hide_my_wp=1234″ contains “&” symbol. If I remove it the error goes away, I assume this will break the login page.

I look forward working through this with you.

Stephen

[Suman M.]

Hi, can you please post here (as private reply) the entire rules generated by HMWP?

[salderman]

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[Suman M.]

Hi, I’ve assigned the ticket to Sr. Support to have further look into it. He shall get back to you soon.

[Suman M.]

Checked with Sr. support and it seems like there’s some issue with IIS config rules. We’ll be fixing this in the upcoming versions of the plugin.

• This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by Suman M..

[salderman]

Is there a timeframe on next version as I cannot use the plugin?

[Suman M.]

Sorry for the inconvenience, but as of now we cannot commit on the exact timeframe.

[Hassan]

Sorry for the inconvenience,

We have started working on this issue and it will be fixed in next version.

Until then try disabling: full hide mode and disable directory listing.

Hope this help.

[salderman]

Any update on fixing this for IIS , plugin is not usable on IIS no matter what you turn off. Plugin generates illegal characters. I understand you need time to resolve this, but I don’t think it is unreasonable to be given a timeframe considering IIS is supposed to be supported and clearly it isn’t, since it cannot generate a valid config that can be loaded.

[Hassan]

You’re right!

We release a fixed version in following week!

[Hassan]

Finally, here it is.

Please let me know if it solve the problem.

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[ckpar3]

Both sets of errors are still there. Tried the latest download from codecanyon and the beta file posted above.

1 – error: The requested page cannot be accessed because the related configuration data for the page is invalid.

<action type=”Rewrite” url=”/index.php?style_wrapper=1&yFpB_hide_my_wp=1234″ appendQueryString=”true” />

2 – error: contains an unmatched ‘[‘ or ‘]’.

The expression “^(((website/wp-content|website/wp-includes)/([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\/]*))|(wp-admin/(!network\/?)([A-Za-z0-9\-\_\/]+)))(\.txt|/)$”

so far, plugin unusable on IIS

• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by ckpar3.
• This reply was modified 9 years, 3 months ago by ckpar3.

[salderman]

Come on, it is now November we are going on three months that your plugin has not been in a working state for IIS. This is very poor considering this is advertised as a plugin compatible with IIS and it simply isn’t working at all nd you don’t seem to have any intention of fixing it.

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