By eatrains on

I'm running IIS 6 and Drupal 4.7.6. Drupal can connect to the database just fine, but only index.php loads. When I try to load a node, it just renders the front page. I can't even get to the log in page. Has this happened to anyone else?

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coreyp_1’s picture

coreyp_1 commented

Possibly a .htaccess issue?

I don't use IIS myself, so that's the extent of my insight.

- Corey

eatrains’s picture

eatrains commented

I'm unfamiliar with IIS as well. I also initially thought it was an .htaccess issue, but as far as I can tell IIS doesn't use .htaccess files and just ignores them if they're present.

patrickharris’s picture

patrickharris commented

the fact .htaccess is ignored. I think you would be better off using Apache; it's easy enough to install if you download it via a framework like Xampp.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

.htaccess is an Apache only thing. IIS doesn't know or care about the existence of .htaccess.

-Steven Peck
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-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
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mlcc2000’s picture

mlcc2000 commented

I am running Drupal 4.7.5 on IIS 5 and it does work. It does take some configuration and modifications to work. Are you saying that the links on the page don't work or that you cannot get anything to come up even when typing in a link on the browser's address bar? Such as http://www.yourserver.com/index.php?q=admin

Good luck

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

Here are some instructions I wrote up a while ago that work
http://www.blkmtn.org/node/197

For the IIS server, make sure in IIS administrator that you have index.php as an option (top and only option for the directory your Drupal install will be in. Test with phpinfo script in an index.php page.

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide -|- Black Mountain

-Steven Peck
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Test site, always start with a test site.
Drupal Best Practices Guide