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Kwong, Vincci | 20 May 18:16

Re: FW: Drupal for library staff intranet?

Our library is looking into Drupal too. However the server we have is Windows Server 2003 and we are required
to use IIS 6 instead of Apache as web server. Most of the documentation out there is for Apache, does any
library have experience with IIS 6 together with Drupal? Thanks and have a nice day!

Vincci Kwong.

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Vincci Kwong

Assistant Librarian

Head of Web Services

Franklin D. Schurz Library

574-520-4444

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Cloutman, David | 20 May 18:41

RE: Re: FW: Drupal for library staff intranet?

I think the first thing you need to try is installing PHP / MySQL on
that platform. That's probably your biggest hurdle there. It seems that
it is possible as there are a number of tutorials. Try Googling "php 5
iis6". That will get you through the PHP part. The MySQL install can we
done with the Windows installer. Then you'll need to configure PHP to
work with MySQL. Once you've got that working, try installing Drupal.

Googling "IIS Drupal" returns results suggesting that this is possible,
but that you will have to implement clean URLs in a different manner.

The best way to find out if this works is to try it. Perhaps you want to
experiment on a test machine first. Try getting it to work, and let us
know if your were successful.

- David

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Electronic Services Librarian
Marin County Free Library 

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Cary Gordon | 20 May 22:50

Re: Re: FW: Drupal for library staff intranet?

Drupal runs fine on IIS 6. Installing PHP is a little tricky, but very  
well documented. Peter Guy has an excellent tutorial on this at
<http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html 
 >.

The only caveat is that there is no native URL rewriting function in  
IIS, so it you want "clean URLs" (no question marks), you have to  
purchase an IIS plugin (or build one yourself).

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On May 20, 2008, at 9:16 AM, Kwong, Vincci wrote:

> Our library is looking into Drupal too. However the server we have  
> is Windows Server 2003 and we are required to use IIS 6 instead of  
> Apache as web server. Most of the documentation out there is for  
> Apache, does any library have experience with IIS 6 together with  
> Drupal? Thanks and have a nice day!
>
>
>
> Vincci Kwong.
>
> -------------------------------------------------
>

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