Running EE on Windows server

[mickeyjuice]

G'day all.

I'm trying to get EE up and running on a windows server (at the ISP) - it runs other PHP stuff like Movable Type no worries, so I'm hoping it will run EE...

The new server doesn't run apache... It runs IIS.

I can't configure the 'thumbs' and 'microthumbs' folders to 777 with CHMOD, as it's not a *nix server.

Any suggestions? I've played with my paths and so on (it's a subdomain of my hosted domain) but I'm pretty sure the problem is the permissions for the two folders.

Anything I can tell my ISP would be greatly appreciated :-)

cheers,

Mic.

[TomKa]

Look at the forum, there are some threads about running EE on IIS:
http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=11569#58535

[manutremo]

I've been running EE 1.2 and 1.3rc for some months on WinXP + IIS without problems. Just forget the CHMOD instruction, it's not needed in IIS.

Now I'm running EE1.5b1 on WinXP+ Apache. I switched to Apache because with EE1.5b1 you need and ftp server, and I was not able no make the ftp server on iis work correctly (don't ask me why).

Now I can tell you that Apache is faster, more stable, eats less memory and works flawlessly. The drawback is that configuration and combination with php are a bit more difficult, but the instructions in php.net and apache.org are very clear.

[mickeyjuice]

Thanks guys.

Given that manutremo is running it under IIS (I've got no choice, that's what the ISP is running), maybe I'm stuffing up the paths?

The absolute path (looking from the ftp program)is 'ftp://cross.com.au/wwwroot/photos/thumbs'

EE is installed in the 'photos' directory, which is a subdomain - http://photos.cross.com.au

My relative path should then be '../thumbs', should it not?

Also, in the other thread, Pekka said 'IIS can work, but you may have to edit includepath into EE's fetchsettings.php and perhaps other stuff, too.'

Anyone tell me what that means?

cheers,

Mic

[manutremo]

I don't know if the fact that you are running a subdomain is of importance here.

I give you my paths:

EE is installed in http://viajeros.no-ip.info/gallery

Thumbs path is http://viajeros.no-ip.info/gallery/fotos/thumbs/

My relative path is ../fotos/thumbs/

It took me a little of trial and error to get it work.

Hope this is of help

[jose_bonifacio]

Not sure if you got your setup working for you since its already December and your post was on May. But I have WinXP, IIS5 (I think) and Exhibit Engine working fine.

Just reply here if you still need help with this.

Later,

JB..


miccullen wrote:
Thanks guys.

Given that manutremo is running it under IIS (I've got no choice, that's what the ISP is running), maybe I'm stuffing up the paths?

The absolute path (looking from the ftp program)is 'ftp://cross.com.au/wwwroot/photos/thumbs'

EE is installed in the 'photos' directory, which is a subdomain - http://photos.cross.com.au

My relative path should then be '../thumbs', should it not?

Also, in the other thread, Pekka said 'IIS can work, but you may have to edit includepath into EE's fetchsettings.php and perhaps other stuff, too.'

Anyone tell me what that means?

cheers,

Mic