Drupal on Windows

Hi,

One of my clients who have constraints to use windows in production with IIS 6.0 have the following architecture:
1 hardware load balancer, 2 web servers and 1 dedicated mysql servers. It now has the classic issue in which the files directory on web01 and web02 needs to be either shared on a network file system or be in sync with each other. More
robust solutions are to use data cloud or a distributed file system, the last 2 options are out of question and currently we are looking at the 2 classic solutions.

I have a Drupal 6 install on IIS 6 (Windows 2003) that was recently migrated from Linux. We implemented with FastCGI so we could use CleanURLs. Just about everything is working with one exception. I have a content type that uses filefield field in the CCK. For some reason, I get a 404 error when trying to click on the links for these files.

Drupal is used on Windows far more then most people suspect. In part this is due to a large segment of our user base being Open Source advocates which tends to inadvertently suppress discussion when a response is often 'use a linux host'. However, there is a large portion of our user base that just wants to use or deploy Drupal already are familier with the OS they currently use and don't want to learn yet another operating system. As a result I plan to start blogging again with a renewed focus on Drupal on Windows and IIS.

Hi there

I'm running Drupal 6 on IIS7/php5.3 - I get the 500 error on /admin/build/modules 'save configuration' even though changes I've made are saved - I also get the same error when I select 'flush all caches' from the admin menu module (turns out I get a 403 when I flush the 'theme' cache - so that must be the problem - I am using a custom theme - a subtheme of blueprint which Ive created).

The latter problem suggests a permsissions error (i do not have direct access to the server) but I wondered if the first problem is something IIS7 specific?

A heads-up to my fellow developers. I ran into this problem on Lighty, but it probably is going to occur on all non-Apache server daemons, so I'm cross-posting this to the Nginx and IIS groups too.

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".

Hi folks,

I'm using ISAPI Rewrite 3 on an Acquia Drupal site, on IIS6.

The external url of the site is something like this:

http://site.domain.com/directory

The site itself isn't actually in a subdirectory, but the url has to have that structure to conform with our firewall/web access control system.

By setting the $base_url parameter in Drupal's settings.php file to the url above, I have the site mostly working fine.

Hi folks,

Any ideas for a failover architecture with Drupal on IIS6? Basically looking for a way to keep a "hot spare" in sync with the live box and switchover automatically if the main box goes down.

Thanks in advance,