Does Webfm work on IIS6.

I have not ever tried to get webfm working on anything other than apache so I do not have any specific insight here - you are in uncharted waters. Off hand, a refusal to make a directory sounds like a permissions issue. Check the properties of the containing directories and open them up.

Oh, I forgot to add that IIS cannot tolerate clean urls so make sure they are turned off. If you are stuck and cannot get to the settings page to disable clean urls then make the change in the clean_url record of the variable table.

I would like to hear if you were able to diagnose the problem. I'm going to start collecting information to build up a knowledge base for webFM. Like rob said, IIS6 is uncharted water for webFM. BUT - I can assure you I have webFM working in a WAMP.

andre

Sorry for getting off track a bit, but just wanted to correct robmilne on something. You can actually use clean url's with IIS. It is not as straight forward as Apache as Drupal (and most contrib modules) is predominately written with Apache in mind, but it can be done. I've written a guide on it here;

http://www.iis-aid.com/articles/how_to_guides/using_drupal_clean_urls_wi...

Since I have no experience with serving drupal via IIS I really appreciate the effort and advice.

The trouble with the webfm_dbinsert_file func may stem from the table structure. A quick look at the webfm_file table shows that the desc field is of type 'text' and has no default value. Perhaps substituting 'mediumtext' or 'longtext' for 'text' and will fix the bug. I'll get Andre to review the issue since he wrote the function.

As an aside, I'm not happy having the metadata fields included into the webfm_file table. I'd much rather have them as a separate set of tables that are scalable and configurable ala CCK or flexinode. They are there today because of the time constraints imposed by the delivery of the module to its original customer. What I'd like to find the time for is to add a proper RDF/XML interface.

Perhaps this will help:

http://ca3.php.net/manual/en/function.mkdir.php#71880

Probably more than a few places will have to be touched. If you feel adventurous and want to try adding the cross OS support I'll be more than happy to commit a patch.

I had a quick look at webfm_file.inc and realise that the solution might be as simple as changing the chmod value to 777:


function webfm_mkdir($source, $dest){
$mkdir_path = ($source.'/'.$dest);
if (!is_dir($mkdir_path)) {
if(@mkdir($mkdir_path)) {
chmod($mkdir_path, 0775);
if (!is_writable($mkdir_path))
drupal_set_message(t('The directory %directory is not writable.', array('%directory' => $mkdir_path)));
else
return TRUE;
}
}
return FALSE;
}


Try this if you haven't already tried.

I'm glad for your success. Do you still require the 777 permission inside the mkdir routine of webfm_file.inc? If so I will commit that change.