Magento

I’ve managed to get through the Magento install and configuration in IIS 6. The admin area all appears to work perfectly (so far), but all of the front end links are broken.

In the backend, URLs read something like “http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/index.php/admin/”. Notice the index.php.

In the front end, adding index.php to the URL seems to correct the problem:
http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/customer/account/login/
http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/index.php/customer/account/login/

Any idea how to get index.php as part of the base url? I’ve tried adding it to the Unsecure and Secure base URLs, but that seems to have no effect.

URL rewriting is a very useful/necessary feature, so I’d rather not disable it. Also, disabling it seems to have no effect either (some posts have suggested it).

Here are more details on experience so far on installing Magento in IIS.
http://blog.stephenrushing.com/index.php/php/installing-magento-commerce-on-iis-6/

Thanks in advance for your help and time…

Here’s the output I’m getting for the magento-check.php - strange, since it connected to my database fine during the configuration.
http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/magento-check.php

Here are a couple of other examples of working URLs with the index.php included in them. Also, if you notice the link to my blog above, it also requires the index.php in the URL.
http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/index.php/catalogsearch/result/?q=journey&x;=15&y;=10
http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/index.php/the-journey.html
http://dev.backpackevangelism.com/index.php/about-magento-demo-store

Bumping this up - really hope someone can help me out with this.  I have a friend with the same issue on his unix/apache box.

Considering this is “out-of-the-box” behavior, I’m hoping someone from the Magento team can give me some pointers…

Turning the URL Rewriting off worked! Since the keywords are still in the URL, I don’t mind having the index.php in there. I was worried it would be some sort of query string (e.g. index.php?id=xx).

I was creating a new page theme and noticed that I couldn’t see my theme changes by just choosing “Refresh” from the cache menu and then “Save”. I disabled the cache completely, and that seemed to do the trick.

Am I not trying to clear the cache correctly?