Karl

Thank you. Wish I had some time to mess around with PW. It makes me want to start programming again.

Excellent information. I too have just successfully installed Processwire on Windows Server 2008 running IIS 7. Thanks to everybody posting on this page. Extra information from my situation in case somebody else is running into similar issues. I had never even heard of this CMS until I was told I needed to install it to host a web site for a subsidiary. I had previously installed PHP and MySQL on the system and really didn't feel like installing Apache if I didn't need to do so. I took a leap of faith after reading on the Requirements page that "A user has reported that that were able to install ProcessWire on IIS 7 in Windows 7." Issues and Resolutions Rename /site-default to /site The files you download for Processwire include the folder "site-default", just rename the folder as requested. I was looking to see how IIS interpreted the default web site and was confused immediately. It's a real simple request when you know what it means. Error 500 reported within the browser Immediately I got the 500 error in the browser. That didn't mean much to me so I executed the PHP script from command line. Open a command prompt and navigate to the directory in which you are installing Processwire type full path to php.exe or php-cgi.exe and then install.php e.g. C:\myphpfolder\php.exe install.php This will report the error generated in the script and not just the generic 500 error. In my case PW could not find MySQL on the host. Error 2002 No such host is known (Database connection error) I did a bunch of searching for this. The error actually occurred in the /wire/core/ProcessWire.php file. In review of the code I realized it was parsing the page location to find the "localhost" name. In my case I was not using the default website and I had another name not recognized by (I assume) the hosts file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc). After thinking about it now, I could have probably added the name I had in the hosts file. My resolution was to "Add Application" within the Default Website in IIS pointing to the install location. Now localhost is a valid host name and MySQL could be located. Error 404 file or folder The Processwire home page was fine, but no sub-directory calls worked. That's when I found this post. I took nikola's suggestion: "Download URL Rewrite Module 2.0 for IIS from http://www.iis.net/download/urlrewrite and install it" I downloaded the web.config file he provided and placed it in the Processwire root I removed the <add sequence="module" /> entry as stated by jamestflynn Then finally incorporated the suggestions by zlojkashtan as I understood why that would be important The default site is running. The URL rewrites are working. You guys are awesome.