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

[Earnie Boyd]

Kurt Buff wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:35, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> 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.
> 
> Yah - I knew that, but there's a preference here for IIS/MSSQL, since
> that's the strength of the IT staff.
> 

I would argue that the strength of an IT staff is its ability to learn
new things and not what it knows already.  I would make the pitch toward
Apache/MySql/PHP for Windows (WAMP) server.  I'm no server guru and
managed to set up my first site in less than a day and that wasn't even
Drupal.

>>> 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>
> 
> Ran just fine, with lots of output. Shall I post the whole thing, or
> are there bits of it that you deem more relevant than others.
> 

Give us the PHP installed modules.  We'll start there.

> Note that I've deleted the directory "C:\Program Files\PHP\v5.3" that
> came with the WPI installation, and have installed 5.6 from an MSI
> package download on the php.net web site. This newer install offers to
> use IIS with either CGI or FastCGI - I chose the former. However, it
> does not offer MSSQL, only MySQL, Postgresql and a couple of others.
> 

I hear FastCGI may have been the better choice but I've no experience
either way.

>> Most of us use Apache and MySql so help maybe slim.
> 
> Understood.
> 
>>  The install.php
>> script will actually display a page with questions for you to answer
>> primarily regarding your database.
> 
> Which it did, and I answered, and it seemed to be happy.
> 
>>  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.
> 
> I don't believe this to be the case because of the following:
> 
> Per an earlier message, I created test.html, and placed it in the
> virtual directory that the install package created, which is located
> at C:\Intepub\wwwroot\DrupalTest. A browse to
> http://localhost/DrupalTest/test.html brings up the file, but
> http://localhost/DrupalTest/install.php brings up the 404.
> 

I'm thinking here you need to tell IIS about .php files.  It's not able
to translate how to serve the file extension.

You might want to take your questions to http://php.iis.net/ and see if
they might help you.

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