garymich

OK, I guess that nobody has been able to get this configuration to work or they just aren’t ready to share how they managed to accomplish it. I’m not a server guy but have have installed plenty of .net sites on iis 6 & 7. I think I have a solution! I’ll use a .net open source blogging solution and stop wasting my time!

Cheers and good luck.

Hi. Fortunately for me it would not be asn issue as the servers I am trying to install on are mine or are leased by me and as such I have full administrative priveleges on them. I think I will try upgrading to IIS 7.0 on one of the servers and see if that solves the problem.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Hi,

Well I don’t know if I am progressing or regressing. I have tried to do a re-install using the real domain name. Problem is now after I enter the name of the blog and my email address in the first step I am getting the following IIS error:

The page cannot be displayed
You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed.
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Please try the following:

Contact the Web site administrator if you believe this directory should allow execute access.
HTTP Error 403.1 – Forbidden: Execute access is denied.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

I have tried allowing execute access for the folder from within IIS for both the wordpress folder and the wordpress/wp-admin folders but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Any other ideas?

thnx

Gary

Hi,

Thanks again for the prompt response. I think I now understand what you are asking and yes I suppose I did install using the localhost url. And I now can see why that would be a problem so I will attempt to re-install and see how it goes.

Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. I will let you know how I make out.

Hi,

Sorry for not responding earlier. I am not quite sure of what you mean by: did you install wordpress using the localhost url, is this a config file setting or where would I have entered this information? Would this be in the wp-config.php file?

When you refer to the front page, which of the files are you referring to? I have looked at a few of the files and find that one usually tells me to look at another. So right now I still can’t find the page containing the urls.

I am going to examine my wp-config.php file in more detail to see if I can figure out where I have gone wrong. Let me know if you have any other ideas or can clarify the items I have mentioned.

thnx

Gary