On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:35, Earnie Boyd earnie@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.
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.
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.
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.
At that point, browsing either http://localhost/test.html or http://localhost/install.php brings a 404
Then I copied the entire contents of C:\Intepub\wwwroot\DrupalTest to C:\Intepub\wwwroot, and http://localhost/test.html file is found there, but again http://localhost/install.php brings a 404.
I'll keep plugging away at this.
Kurt