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By Ayliea on
Hi everyone, I'm brand new to Drupal. I am trying to convert from ASP.Net/VB.Net to Drupal and PHP. I have already downloaded and installed PHP (v5.3) and MySQL (v5.5). I am reading the book "The Definitive Guide to Drupal 7" (numerous authors) and reading the section on installing Drupal in a Windows Development Environment. I have Visual Studio 2010 and although the aurthor of this section gives instructions on how to install Drupal via VS.PHP, I don't have VS.PHP; I am honestly leaning towards Netbeans instead as a developer tool because it's free. My question is this: Can anyone point me to instructions on how to set up Drupal to run with IIS7 instead of Apache, without using VS.PHP? Can anyone please point me to instructions somewhere on how to do this? Thanks in advance,
Ayliea
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As a windows user I feel your pain but i don't believe there are any docs for this environment-- though if you search drupal.org for 'iis7' you'll find some tips that might be useful. There's also the windows platform installer that might be worth a try.
however, in all honestly, unless you have a specific reason for using IIS, you're probably better off going with a standard WAMP stack (i like the acquia damp version)-- that's ultimately what I ended up doing.
Missing tools
Well, I got this all installed and can get to the main Drupal interface, and was in the process of installing Chaos tools, when I got lots of errors when trying to use the "Install new module" and "Install from a URL" so I did it the old-fashioned way...manually! It installed most of the Chaos tools that way, but now when I go to the list of available Ctools, at the very bottom, the "Views Content Planes" is missing. This may not be the right place to ask this question - but how do I get missing tools installed? TIA.
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What do you mean by missing? If you see "views content panes" then it's not missing, lol ( you wouldn't see it at all). If you mean you see the word "missing" in the 'requires' line, then it means you're missing a module dependency. iirc, views_content only depends on the ctools and views modules so make sure views is also installed.
Yes, the word "missing" (in
Yes, the word "missing" (in red) comes up in the required line:
The problem is that there is no "Views" module listed - neither in the Core modules nor in the Chaos Tool Suite, so I'm a bit confused on how to install it. Where is it located for me to install manually, if it was not included in the Ctools zip file? Thanks very much for your continued assistance. :-)
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It's a separate module: http://drupal.org/project/views. It's a hugely important module, but if you're not using it already, then you probably don't need to enable views content panes which is a plugin for views.
Thanks!
Yeah, actually, I do need it - I found it shortly after I posted this; I am such a newbie I had no idea there were so many separate modules to add individually. Thanks!
One more question...
I am looking at adding lists to my website; i.e., task lists or to do lists, and found this: http://drupal.org/project/to_do but I see that so far it is only for Drupal v6.x. Will this work with Drupal 7? If not does anyone know if there are plans in the works to incorporate this with Drupal 7?
Thanks again, I truly appreciate the help. :-)
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Nope... modules are only compatible with the major versions of drupal (ie 6.x with d6 and 7.x with d7). I took a quick look in the module's issue queue, and though there was an issue about a d7 version, it seems the current maintainer doesn't have the time or inclination to work on it (and neither does anyone else apparently).
I would guess that it's not been a priority to update because you don't need a separate module for it with d7-- just create your own 'task' content type with whatever fields you like. You can then use either core taxonomy or the views module to create lists.
Thanks again WorldFallz, your
Thanks again WorldFallz, your help is much appreciated!
We (my hubby and I) figured out how to do this, but it isn't working exactly like we want. This doesn't really fall under the installation of Drupal on Windows7 with IIS any more though, so if I continue to need help with how to get this to work for us, I'll post in the correct area.
Once again, thanks very much for your help. What a refreshing change to come to a forum site where you actually get help and don't have to wait days & days (or never get a response) such as I've found at the ASP.Net forums. I'm sure that once I get my feet wet so to speak, I'll be much happier with Druapl and PHP than I ever was with .Net! :-D
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happy to help ;-)
i was an asp.net (and joomla) user myself at one time-- and since finding drupal I've never looked back!