Is it possible to install Fuel on an IIS server?

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• admin

  August 2011 edited 6:21AM

  You can definitely run FUEL without .htaccess just like a normal CodeIgniter application. You will just need to add index.php to the "$config['index_page']" configuration parameter in the fuel/application/config/config.php file.
• JavaJunky

  August 2011 edited 6:21AM

  Thanks for the response. I tried what you suggested. But it's still only spitting out the above error. I also did a lot of searching around for CI + IIS6 installs, but all of it is not working yet. I tried changing "$config['index_page']" to 'index.php' and also 'index.php?' as some have suggested. I'm going to keep trying different things. If you have any other ideas, let me know. Thanks again!
• admin

  August 2011 edited 6:21AM

  Did you check the index.php file to fix the paths? Perhaps the INSTALL_ROOT needs to be changed in that file?
• JavaJunky

  August 2011 edited 6:21AM

  hmm, so I'm echoing out what dirname(__FILE__) and realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) are.
  dirname(__FILE__) outputs:
  \\f810-e4.msp.eschelon.com\customer-home\M\mysitename
  realpath(dirname(__FILE__)) returns an empty string.
  
  What should 'INSTALL_ROOT' be if I were to set it manually?
• admin

  August 2011 edited 6:21AM

  It should be the server path to the "fuel" folder (e.g. /var/www/httpdocs/fuel/)
• JavaJunky

  August 2011 edited 6:21AM

  So I'm trying to do a clean install of Fuel CMS first just to see if I can get it working. I manually set the 'INSTALL_ROOT' and I'm not getting the original error now. I think it's seeing the system folder path. However I'm getting these two errors now.
  
  Warning: require(/f810-e4.msp.eschelon.com/customer-home/M/salessite/fuel/application/config/constants.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in \\f810-e4.msp.eschelon.com\customer-home\M\salessite\fuel\codeigniter\core\CodeIgniter.php on line 49 Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required '/f810-e4.msp.eschelon.com/customer-home/M/salessite/fuel/application/config/constants.php' (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in \\f810-e4.msp.eschelon.com\customer-home\M\salessite\fuel\codeigniter\core\CodeIgniter.php on line 49
  
  I verified that 'constants.php' is there in /fuel/application/config/.
• admin

  September 2011 edited 6:21AM

  Have you tried installing just a normal CI instance on the server to see if that works? I'm seeing similar issues in CodeIgniter forum posts with just normal CI installs and thought if it is just a CI issue we could solve that first then work with the FUEL install.
  
  You've probably seen these in your search venture but I'm posting links I've found here just in case it helps:
  http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/72013/
  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5408111/codeigniter-2-on-iis-with-web-config-file
  http://codeigniter.com/forums/viewthread/91954
• JavaJunky

  September 2011 edited 6:21AM

  That's a good idea. I'm going to try that. Thanks!
• JavaJunky

  September 2011 edited 6:21AM

  Just to follow up, the IIS server was spitting out error after error. I'd fix one thing only to see a new set of errors displayed. I think it is mostly because the server was running an old version of IIS. Anyway, we got the client working on a new Apache server and everything is running smoothly now. Only took a short while to migrate the website from our test server to the new Apache server.
  
  Thanks for all the help. Dealing with IIS is a bit of a headache.