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

[Don]

It's been a while since I've worked with IIS, but there were two things 
i had to do.
Go into security settings and set the directories to publicly available and
find a program that got mod-rewrite to work correctly.

It's much easier running apache, not to mention the directory and file 
level security is better. or at least was.

-Don-

On 7/21/2011 2:35 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> Kurt Buff wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> While it is likely possible SQL Server please note that MySql is the
> stronger suit since that is what has been extensively tested.
>
>> 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:
>>
> Can you get a phpinfo() script to run on the server?
>
> <script name="pinfo.php">
> <?php
> phpinfo();
> </script>
>
> Most of us use Apache and MySql so help maybe slim.  The install.php
> script will actually display a page with questions for you to answer
> primarily regarding your database.  A 404 error indicates you've not
> configured IIS to recognize the localhost/DrupalTest as the "Root
> Directory" of the web site but I don't know how to configure IIS so good
> luck.
>