Drupal on Windows

System Information:
-Windows Server 2012 Standard
-Drupal 7.4.1
-MySQL

I'm sharing information that worked for me when creating a link in the block body, to a file folder location. Keep in mind that correct permissions would also be necessary to have the desired result of the user clicking the link and having success displaying the files within the folder. But another part of that success would be typing out the file path using the correct structure.
Example:
file:///S:/IMD/APS/Ique_Project/06-Training/R2%20User%20Guides/Final_BPD...

Does anyone have experience configuring the LDAP module for automatic login?

We are running Drupal 7.39 on IIS 8.5, MSSQL all on Windows 2012 servers. I can authenticate users with LDAP via manual login, and create new users, all no problem. But when we enable LDAP SSO and turn on automated single sign-on we loose access with the server.

The LDAP SSO module says we need to setup LDAP authentication on the web server. Other than configuring IIS for Windows Authentication, what else should be done?

And what are the Authentication Mechanisms set on the LDAP SSO form?

Trying to migrate a Drupal site from a Unix (Ubuntu) server to Windows. New server has Windows Server 2012 R2, IIS 8.5, PHP 5.6.0, Mysql 5.5.42, all recently installed on a newly-created VM.

Hi Experts,

We created a new website using Drupal 7, IIS7.5, PHP5.3, WIN2008, MSSQL2008, and FastCgi, 4 CPUs, 16GB ram, Wincache.

It works fine when only 1 visitor browsing the homepage, it takes around 2-3 second to load it. But when I try to conduct a stress test by simulating 10 concurrent users, the loading time for homepage turned into 5-6 seconds and the CPU usage is almost 100%.

Could you please advise how to improve such situation?

Looking forward to hear from you.

Best regards,
Samuel

We went through the process last year of documenting how to set up Drupal on Windows:
https://github.com/OpenConceptConsulting/drupal-windows-server

There are lots of pieces of documentation, but as a long time LAMP user I couldn't find anything to consolidate it.

This needs some help from Windows System Admins, but should hopefully help some folks take the next step.

Please fork and suggest pull requests to update the documentation.

Hi there. We're going with Windows 8/IIS/PHP and are wondering which is the better solution: MSSQL or MySQL? We currently have a WAMP box running Drupal 6 and will need to migrate data from the current MySQL db to whatever we decide to use on this new build. Thoughts?

All -

I've never worked on a Windows server before, and am more the site operator/design than server guy, but I'm on my own on this project. I have an SSL certificate installed on the server, but Drupal 7 with Ubercart is logging the following error:

SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate

I'm at a loss, and have been working on this and researching for about a week now. Thanks for whatever help you can offer!

Chris

Hi

After installing Drupal on Windows 2008 r2, IIS7 and SQL Server 2012, we get errors whenever accessing any of the log pages e.g. under /admin/reports/dblog

gives this error:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[42S02]: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 11.0][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'watchdog'.: SELECT DISTINCT(type) FROM {watchdog} ORDER BY type; Array ( ) in _dblog_get_message_types() (line 133 of C:\inetpub\wwwroot****\modules\dblog\dblog.module).

and under

/admin/reports/access-denied

gives

I work in a .Net shop and so, although I am tasked to produce a website for the company in Drupal, I am told that the server has to have a Windows operating system in order to take advantage of in-house knowledge for supporting the server. Windows and Drupal (i.e., PHP and MySQL) are the only given technical criteria; I can dictate what kind of Windows server it will be, and any necessary configurations.