Posted by mtndan on September 4, 2009 at 1:20pm
Hi folks,
I'm successfully running Drupal on IIS6 with PHP5 (fastcgi) which I installed via the IIS-Aid.com installer.
I am trying to setup a new website on the same server, same IIS, and have matched all the settings as the working site.
On the new site however, I can't get php files to execute - it just returns a HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
Any ideas? This is driving me nuts.
Thanks!
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try this
Assuming you're setting up on same ip, same port, it's because IIS isn't seeing the directory as a site. How you fix this depends on how you setup your subsite in the directory structure.
1) Start IIS Manager.
For parentsite.com/subsite/, you need to create a virtual directory. Go down to parentsite.com. Right-click on parentsite.com | Add virtual directory. Alias: [new site name, eg subsite]. Physical path: [parent site's physical path]. Click OK.
For subsite.parentsite.com (or subsite.com), you need to create a website, add the sub-domain (e.g. subdomain.domain.com) as a new host header value, then update your DNS. Right-click on Sites | Add web site. Give it a name, and point the physical path to the parent site's physical path. Add a host header by clicking on the advanced tab next to the IP address configuration for that web site application. Then go to your DNS and add a CNAME entry to point subsite.parentsite.com to parentsite.com.
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needed to enable fcgi on new site...
Duh, I found fcgi.exe was only enabled for .php on the default site, not at the server level. So, I added it and away we go...
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