IIS
Drupal HEAD and HTTP 500 errors on IIS 7
Heine — Fri, 09/01/2009 - 12:41
If you use PHP via FastCGI on IIS 7 and installing Drupal HEAD (7.x-dev) results in an HTTP 500 error, you may need to increase a number of timeout settings. The PHP.ini ones are fairly straightforward, but setting the activityTimeout for the FastCGI module is not intuitive.
Open a Command prompt with Administrative rights and enter:
The path to cgi should be replaced with the path of the PHP binary you registered with IIS. You must wrap the path in additional double quotes if it contains spaces. Example:
To get easier access to such settings, install the Administration Pack for IIS:
Drupal clean URLs on IIS 7
Heine — Thu, 16/10/2008 - 09:57
To get Clean URLs working on IIS 7, install the new URL rewriter module (x86, x64) and add the following to the system.webServer section of the sites' web.config:
<rules>
<rule name="Drupal clean URLs" enabled="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_URI}" negate="true" pattern="/favicon.ico$" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?q={R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
You also need to install a hotfix to correct REQUEST_URI behaviour when using PHP via the FastCGI module. See KB954946 for more information. A symptom of this problem is when all form submissions get redirected to the frontpage of the site.
