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.