WordPress & PHP on Windows Server IIS 6

Posted By Chris Stinson in Internet Information Server,MySQL,PHP on July 10, 2007

This is a quick tip to those who are having trouble installing or using WordPress on Windows Server with PHP.

Make sure in the PHP.ini file that the following is set:

; Magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from exec(), etc.
magic_quotes_runtime = Off

If this is ON, WordPress will not allow you to login. It will spit out the following error:

“You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.”

You CAN have magic_quotes ON though, which is a different setting. The above setting is for data being pulled from a MySQL database for example.

Also make sure the following is set:

; cgi.fix_pathinfo provides *real* PATH_INFO/PATH_TRANSLATED support for CGI. PHP’s
; previous behaviour was to set PATH_TRANSLATED to SCRIPT_FILENAME, and to not grok
; what PATH_INFO is. For more information on PATH_INFO, see the cgi specs. Setting
; this to 1 will cause PHP CGI to fix it’s paths to conform to the spec. A setting
; of zero causes PHP to behave as before. Default is zero. You should fix your scripts
; to use SCRIPT_FILENAME rather than PATH_TRANSLATED.
cgi.fix_pathinfo=1

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2 Responses to “WordPress & PHP on Windows Server IIS 6”

1. 

   deciacco

   August 9, 2007 at 9:47 pm

   Hi,
   I was wondering what you did in terms of directory permissions for WordPress on IIS. I can’t seem to find any resources out there.
   Thanks!

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   admin

   August 10, 2007 at 4:41 pm

   You have to open up the dialog box in Windows Explorer and go to Security tab. You need to set the internet user (IUSER_ComputerName) permissions to read/view, and the config files to read/write.

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