By chinthana007 on

my company has inherited some drupal sites on drupal version 6. We are trying to setup them on IIS7. We are using Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite 3.1 to rewrite urls. Frontend of the site works well wihout any problems with Re written urls. But when trying to browse /admin. I get 403:Access denied error and I cannot seem to get rid of this no matter what I do. Please advice..?

.htaccess file containes below.

# Helicon ISAPI_Rewrite configuration file
# Version 3.1.0.79

RewriteEngine on

# Modify the RewriteBase if you are using Drupal in a subdirectory or in a
# VirtualDocumentRoot and the rewrite rules are not working properly.
# For example if your site is at http://example.com/drupal uncomment and
# modify the following line:
# RewriteBase /drupal
#
# If your site is running in a VirtualDocumentRoot at http://example.com/,
# uncomment the following line:
RewriteBase /

# Rewrite URLs of the form 'x' to the form 'index.php?q=x'.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?q=$1 [L,QSA]

web.config containes below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
    <system.webServer>
        <defaultDocument>
            <files>
                <clear />
                <add value="index.php" />
                <add value="Default.htm" />
                <add value="Default.asp" />
                <add value="index.htm" />
                <add value="index.html" />
                <add value="iisstart.htm" />
                <add value="default.aspx" />
            </files>
        </defaultDocument>
        <directoryBrowse enabled="true" />
    </system.webServer>
</configuration>
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chinthana007 commented

I think I have found my own solution for this problem.. please look at my web.config file settings below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
  <system.webServer>
  <!-- Don't show directory listings for URLs which map to a directory. -->
    <directoryBrowse enabled="true" />

    <!--
       Caching configuration was not delegated by default. Some hosters may not delegate the caching
       configuration to site owners by default and that may cause errors when users install. Uncomment
       this if you want to and are allowed to enable caching
     -->
    <!--
    <caching>
      <profiles>
        <add extension=".php" policy="DisableCache" kernelCachePolicy="DisableCache" />
        <add extension=".html" policy="CacheForTimePeriod" kernelCachePolicy="CacheForTimePeriod" duration="14:00:00" />
      </profiles>
    </caching>
     -->

    

    <httpErrors>
      <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />
      <error statusCode="404" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/index.php" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />	
      <remove statusCode="403" subStatusCode="-1" />
      <error statusCode="403" prefixLanguageFilePath="" path="/index.php?q=admin" responseMode="ExecuteURL" />
    </httpErrors>

    <defaultDocument>
     <!-- Set the default document -->
      <files>
        <remove value="index.php" />
        <add value="index.php" />
      </files>
    </defaultDocument>
<rewrite>
  <rules>
                <rule name="Drupal clean url" stopProcessing="true">
                    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                        <add input="{URL}" pattern="^/favicon.ico$" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
                    </conditions>
                    <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?q={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
                </rule>
        <rule name="Protect files and directories from prying eyes" stopProcessing="true">
          <match url=".(engine|inc|info|install|module|profile|test|po|sh|.sql|postinst.1|theme|tpl(.php)?|xtmpl|svn-base)$|^(code-style.pl|Entries.|Repository|Root|Tag|Template|all-wcprops|entries|format)$" />
          <action type="CustomResponse" statusCode="403" subStatusCode="0" statusReason="Forbidden" statusDescription="Access is forbidden." />
        </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>
  </system.webServer>
</configuration>
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pwhite commented

Hi,

I just had a similar problem and your fix helped. Thank you for this.

Pete