[support] Drupal 7 installation on Win2k3 R2 SP2 fully patched - no joy

[Joel Willers]

Strange problem.  It seems like you might be having issues with your host setup file.  I'm not exactly a Guru on this, but I hadn't seen any responses (maybe they directly mailed you).  It seems that your browser isn't actually finding the files themselves, so might you be pointing to the wrong area?  It seems that you SHOULD be getting database errors if Drupal was installed incorrectly, but the virtual host was set correctly.  I hope that helps some and leads you in the right direction.

Try putting a normal .html file in the same place as your install.php file (test.html, for example) and throw some simple code in there.  Then try to browse there.  If you can pull it up (localhost/DrupalTest/test.html), then your host is working.  Otherwise, you have a problem with your non-Drupal settings, like vhost, Apache, etc.  Something isn't configured correctly to point at your files, from the sounds of it.

Joel


-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On Behalf Of Kurt Buff
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 5:36 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: [support] Drupal 7 installation on Win2k3 R2 SP2 fully patched - no joy

All,

Just joined the list - I've been tasked with installing this for and
evaluation against DNN with the winner being selected for both our
internal and external web presence.

I followed the directions at http://drupal.org/node/1130898 on a fresh
VM from scratch, as noted in the subject line. The only variance I
introduced in the install process is that I installed SQL Server
Express 2008 R2 beforehand.

However, when I visit http://localhost/DrupalTest on the machine, I
get a 404 error. Nothing I've tried seems to work, including an
explicit browse to http://localhost/DrupalTest/install.php, stopping
and starting both the web site and the w3svc, among other things.

I don't see anything in the event logs showing installation errors,
and my my google-fu may be weak, because I'm turning up nothing in my
searches on teh intarwebs. I also checked the web log, and it shows a
404 for the attempts as well.

The only things that I note that might provide clues (I'm not an IIS
guru) are that:

     o- PHP is not referenced for either the site or the virtual
directory under Properties/Home Directory/Configuration/Mappings as an
extension, nor is there an ISAPI filter of any sort for the web site.

and

     o- Browsing to http://drupal.domain.tld from my own desk produces
an "Under Construction" page, vs.
http://drupal.domain.tld/install.php, which produces a 404 error.

Can anyone point me in the right direction on this?

Thanks,

Kurt
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