By tantyo on

Does anyone ever install drupal on windows server with IIS instead of Apache, please tell me the how to do it..., or is there any writen guide on this installation.

thanks

Comments

Prometheus6’s picture

Prometheus6 commented

No special techniques are needed. If PHP and your compatible database are correctly installed it's all the same, except you have to forget about Clean URLs. mod_rewrite is an Apache thing and Clean URLs depend on it.

Are you having a particular problem with Drupal or with configuring IIS?

boris mann’s picture

boris mann commented

The search is a good place to start.

Check out Windows specific guidelines.

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

this will essentially work http://drupal.org/node/9407 on a Windows 2003 and Windows 2000 server with IIS5/6. It does not mention anything to do with security (not putting your inetpub directory on your C: drive, etc). I suspose I really need to update the Windows instructions.

The biggest thing you lose right now is clean url's, otherwise using an IIS server works just fine.

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

moshe weitzman’s picture

moshe weitzman commented

clean urls work on IIS. search for IIS on this site and you'll find instructions

sepeck’s picture

sepeck commented

These http://drupal.org/node/3854 did not work for me the last time I and a co-worker tried them on both Windows 2000/IIS5 and Windows 2003/II6. It is entirely posible that we did it wrong the 4 different times we ran through it. I was much newer to using Drupal then.

I have not had enough time since my last attempt to try it again. I also know that theorectically you can do redirects through 404 url error handling but am not enough of a coder to try and figure it out yet and am hoping that a proposed patch goes in for 4.6 on that.

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