Hi all, I have a Joomla based site which run on IIS 6 (Win server 2003) and connect to a MySQL database at the same physical host. Please note that this host also handle several PHP based in-house developed sites. All PHP sites are handled by the FastCGI extension. The problem: All PHP in-house sites...

Hello, I just wanted to ask if there are any gotchas with doing 301 redirects for Joomla pages. I had setup some Joomla categories & articles and used a section layout, but I'm not happy with the navigation for various reasons and want to change that. At the same time I also want to change the...

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sir, im installing joomla using the steps in this website "http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/527/joomla-on-iis/" however i dont know how to do this portion... Grant write permissions on configuration file Joomla uses configuration file called configuration.php in order to store key configuration...

In your test you did not use url rewriting. If you used URL rewriting then the REQUEST_URI would contain the rewritten URL. You can confirm that by creating this simple rewrite rule: <rewrite> <rules> <rule name="test"> <match url="foo\.html" /> <action...

Using ISAPI will still cause incompatibility issues when you use URL Rewriter to enable SEO URL's in joomla. The problem is that when you use URL Rewriter the ISAPI will set REQUEST_URI to contain the rewritten url, which, according to the Joomla rewrite rule, will always be index.php . Joomla uses...

Hello, I have a hosted site and I'm having trouble configuring Joomla (running Joomla + php + mySQL on IIS7 + win server 2008). I have a similar configuration running on a local machine (Joomla + php + mySQL on IIS7 + vista x64), so I was at least able to follow instructions showed in various tutorials...

Try this instead: open_basedir = "\\hb1411\iisstorage\web;c:\windows\temp;/tmp" . This worked for me.

It looks like Joomla tries to check folder "/tmp" at the file system root. Since the open_basedir does not allow access to that location the warning occurs. The easiest way to fix that I think is to add the "C:\tmp" to the open_basedir, e.g.: open_basedir = \\hb1411\iisstorage\web;c...

I am porting a Joomla site on Apache to a new server with w2k3 and IIS 6. Everything seems ok, I have PHP, MySql and Joomla 1.0.15 running, but... I have tried to check if everything is ok with Joomla HISA, but no matter what security I set on the folders I always get that configuration.ph is writable...