Getting close with Windows Server and IIS

[David Baker]

I've copied my GotS instance to IIS and MySQL and I'm able to bring up the main page. I'm running into problems when I navigate to one of the tutorials, though.

I'm getting the following when I visit one of the tutorials:

I have the following rewrite rules set up in IIS, which I imported from the .htaccess files:

Anybody have any experience setting up Guide on the Side with IIS that may have some tips? I'm pretty sure it's related to rewrite rules, but I'm not sure.

[David Baker]

Attached my screenshots

[Mike Hagedon]

Thanks for working on GotS on IIS! 

With the caveat that I haven't tried these things, have you seen these CakePHP docs?

• URL rewriting on IIS7: https://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/installation/url-rewriting.html#url-rewrites-on-iis7-windows-hosts
• Slightly uglier URLs without the need for mod_rewrite: https://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/development/configuration.html#core-configuration-baseurl 

Mike

[David Baker]

Mike, Thanks for the reply. I was able to get GotS working in IIS the other day. The CakePHP documentation was helpful when I was working on this. I believe the biggest problem I ran into was the folder I had as my web root. I had the root folder as my webroot, but it should've been the app\webroot\ folder. This was a helpful question:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40939058/cakephp3-url-rewrite-on-iis-server-and-not-removing-index-php-from-url

Here's the rewrite rule I'm using in my web.config

<rewrite>
  <rules>
    <rule name="CakePHP" stopProcessing="true">
      <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
      <conditions>
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
      </conditions>
      <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" appendQueryString="true" />
    </rule>
  </rules>
</rewrite>

Once my webroot was correct and my rewrite rules were in place, everything was good.

David