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I created this group to see what kind of interest there is in running Drupal 7 on a Windows environment. There is already a group to dedicated to Drupal on IIS, which has a good following of people interested in getting Drupal running under Microsoft's Internet Information Servier. The group is mostly focused on Drupal 6, and has some good content.

I wanted a group to discuss the specific issues around running Drupal 7 on Windows, particularly the use of Microsoft's SQL Server as a replacement for MySQL. This is made possible by the work done by a team at Microsoft that wrote a driver for SQL Server, and then packaged up the whole thing as an installable item.

Hi everyone.

Wanted to let you know that we've just released Drupal 7 for Windows+IIS+MSSQL out on http://microsoft.com/web/drupal This distro, built by Commerce Guys comes pre-configured with the Drupal SQL Server Module. When you install this, our installer will check your system and install MS SQL Express and PHP if you need it automatically.

Hello, everybody! I just finished a book, Pro Drupal 7 for Windows Developers. It should be going to press this week and be available mid-February.

The book is an programmer's introduction to Drupal, coming from a Windows developer's a point-of-view. I cover the Drupal page lifecycle and how it differs from the .NET page lifecycle. I talk about the hook model and how it differs from .NET's event-driven architecture. I also have an introduction to PHP for the C/C# programmer, since PHP might be new to a lot of Windows developers.

Hej!

Befinner mig lite i en pressad situation. Har byggt en drupalsajt till en kund som har sin webbplats på Crystone.
Ny i drupal som jag är anande jag inte problemen som dök i o m att servern är en IIS server.

Får inte clean links att fungera men värst av allt är att den svenska språkmodulen skapar elaka felmeddelande om filer som inte existerar och därför inte kan kopieras.

Kunden väntar på att att sajten ska bli klar för visning och är mycket otålig vid det här laget.

Hey Folks,

Some time back I remember one meeting in which one of us mentioned that he had a Drupal setup on a server running IIS. While I lamented anyone having to tolerate such a setup at the time, I am now faced with the same dilemma.

In the university where I work, I have just set up a Drupal 6 site on a server running Windows IIS 6. The install was relatively painless, but I have yet to get clean urls working. I found a post at http://drupal.org/node/3854 that gives different options but I wanted to ask someone local who had travelled the road before.

Yes I run Drupal on windows, period. I don't want this to be a windows vs linux flame far. I much prefer the windows server enviroment and think IIS is far superior to apache.

So with that said I am looking for a discussion to get the best drupal performance out of IIS7/windows server.

A quick port of the APC CacheRouter engine to Wincache: http://drupal.org/node/743028

Since this implements the new user cache, it only works with Wincache 1.1+ (currently available as a beta - http://pecl.php.net/package/wincache).

It seems to be working well, but I haven't done any serious testing on it yet.

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: