Drupal on Windows

I am running Drupal 6.16 on Window Server 2008 R2 Standard Service Pack 1.

Hello,

I work for a foundation and we are about to utilize Drupal with the CiviCRM module. I am familiar with installing Drupal on linux, but my current work environment is only optimal for MS windows.

Having never had any experience with installing and running a windows based drupal system I just want to get some opinions how stable it is? Will I have problems installing modules or anything? Any problems at all about stability?

Has anyone performed any tests or know of a case study, etc. that would show how Drupal performs on a LAMP (or similar) stack vs a Windows based stack?

Or are there key elements in a typical high performance architecture that only runs on one stack or the other?

Hello everyone,

what's the default permissions that I need to give to a drupal 6 web site hosted on IIS 6 ?

IUSR_* permissions on which folders ? sites/default/files ?

IIS_WPG permissions ?

anyone using imagecache module ? which version ?
I'm testing the latest version imagecache module

thanks taking time to reply

Hello everyone,

I'm having an issue using Video module on IIS 6, on a content type , it's intended to create thumbnails out of uploaded video file using ffmpeg.exe ,
on my log entry, I get :

"error generating thumbnail for video: generated file sites/default/files/video_thumbs/310/video-thumb-for-310-5.png does not exist.
Command Executed:
c:\site\ffmpeg\ffmpeg.exe -i "sites/default/files/video_tv/video.flv" -an -y -f mjpeg -ss 0 -vframes 1 sites/default/files/video_thumbs/310/video-thumb-for-310-5.png
Command Output:

Please can anyone help me. I have spent about two weeks on this now and it's driving me crazy. I'm sure it's a common question, but I can't seem to find the complete (idiot-proof!) solution anywhere.

Hello everyone

are there modules for drupal 6 that won't work in IIS 6 ?
specially those configured with apache config settings

thanks

I'm trying to configure a Drupal installation on IIS 7.5 (Windows 2008R2). I installed PHP via the Web Platform Installer, and I do have Drupal running.

However, when I enable CSS Aggregation via admin/settings/performance, the aggregated css files are not being generated. I get the following error:
The selected file could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename.

Hello again,
I've successfully installed acquia drupal 6.19 on windows 2k3, but I don't intend to subscribe to acquia drupal support.
I've upgraded it to drupal 6.20 on a test machine, though I get an (not that bad error) on running localhost/update.php ,

wondering if web platform Installer can be used to upgrade installed packages ( drupal acquia, php and mysql ) ?
or should I upgrade manually to latest acquia drupal version ?

Thanks taking time to reply

regards

Hi all,
I'm having difficulty migrating a site between windows servers. They are both Win2k3 running IIS6. I'm also running the Ionics Isapi Rewrite tool.
I can get the site migrated fine and up and working on the new server. From a site visitor perspective, it's all good.
From an admin perspective though, I'm having big issues with the permissions on files that have been added.

I am looking for a group or just others interested in using MSSQL Svr with Drupal (especially Drupal 7).

I am NOT necessarily wanting to run Drupal on Windows. I want to leave Drupal on its own server under Linux but store the data in SQL Svr on its own Windows server.

Is this group the appropriate group for such discussion? If not, where might I find people interested in such discussion.

Hello everyone,

I'm new to this group, and I'm forced to get drupal 6 running on a windows server, I've tried the latest web package installer, unfortunately, it does no more offer to install IIS + php + mysql with drupal 6.

I've read somewhere that running apache under windows ( with wampserver, uniform server ... ) is not fast and secure as with a IIS wimp solution.

I'm mostly used to a LIMP solution under apache, so if you can please give hints, links or anything that may help solve any issues that may come up wih IIS , I 'll be realy grateful.

Thanks

I am trying to use Drupal as a front end for my MSSQL database. My concept is to keep Drupal on Linux/Apache with MySQL but have all the content-type fields on a MSSQL database.

Is this the right group for such discussions? If not, what group would be more appropriate for Drupal/MSSQL discussions.

Ideally, I would like to see some Drupal modules that would make content types transparent to the Drupal side, but behind the scenes would split the data and keep the nodes and related functionality on the Drupal side in MySQL and but the actual content type data on the MSSQL side.

Does anybody know how to create wildcard sub domains in iis?

Do I need to point a specific ip address to my main drupal root?

I am working on a site that requires the ability to create sub domains on the site itself. Domain Access would work but wildcards would be required.

Any walkthroughs would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

MrPhilbert

Apparently it is easier to run Drupal on IIS, but I want to hear your stories, good and bad!

Cheers,

Chris

This is a page to keep track of resources that are available for Drupal developers working in a Windows environment.

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.

We are currently experimenting with using Drupal 6 (soon Drupal 7) with ASP.Net Forms Authentication and a mildly modified External HTTP Authentication Module. Everything is working great for authenticated users. For anonymous requests everything works well too, with one exception. All PHP Posts by unauthenticated visitors hang until the PHP Timeout and then return a 500.0 Error. This error provides no detail of the actual description of the problem even though verbose logging is on. This is true inside or outside of Drupal.

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.