iis

We've just installed drupal on an IIS machine in our office. It has installed successfully, however we cannot create any content or save settings in the admin menu.

It seems that the "action" attribute in the HTML FORMs are being cleared. For example, when you create a page, the form on index.php?q=node/add/page should post to (ie, the form element's action attribute) "index.php?q=node/add/page". (like it does on all the Mac and Linux servers I've setup with drupal).

What happens is that is just goes to "index.php".

Just wanted to pass along my experience using the WebPI install of PhP 5.2.10. It works ok out of the box for Drupal6 but I discovered that several dlls are not enabled by default that are helpful for several Drupal tasks, notably:

tidy (see this iis.net forum post)
xsl
pdo and pdo_mysql - these are required by Drupal7
mcrypt - required by phpmyadmin

At the risk of talking only to myself once again, I thought it might be useful to someone to put up the web.config file generated by the Web Platform Installer's Acquia Drupal installation, since if you're not using the WebPI you need to generate this yourself. It looks like it covers pretty much everything in the standard .htaccess file. Anyone know if there's anything it doesn't do? Anyway, here it is:

Anyone out there successfully done a multi-site setup on IIS? How did you do it? I'm looking to flesh out the documentation - so far all I can find is this discussion in the forums...

Since getting clean URLs on IIS seems like an important topic in its own right, I've taken the liberty to break it out into its own wiki resource. Please help me flesh out the documentation if you have some time. I'm hoping we can get it into good enough shape to incorporate it into the Drupal documentation.

Let's make it easier for people to get this done!

Breaking this one out into its own thread...

The original question posted had to do with file system permissions needed to get some modules working.

The Mollom blog included some great news for IIS users this week:

Zion Security, a Belgium-based company specializing in the security analysis of web sites and systems, has used Mollom's open API to develop a Microsoft IIS module utilizing Mollom to detect and prevent comment and posting spam.

This module is unique in that it is a HTTP module coded for Microsoft IIS, comparable to an Apache module, and allows Mollom to potentially expand to a number of ASP/IIS based systems.

Note: For issues with Drupal on IIS, please submit a discussion rather than a wiki, which does not allow for comment and discussion.

Here are some that were submitted - feel free to add yours as well, or offer solutions.

Global Redirect - IIS with ISAPI_ Rewrite & clean_url ends with endless loop

File system permissions on sites/default/files - need to give the IIS process owner permissions (details?)

Write protecting the settings.php file - needed to do an 'attrib +r settings.php' from a cmd prompt to finally get the warning to go away.

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