Installing under IIS to a subfolder

  • Resolved amSteve

    (@amsteve)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    Greets – brand new to WP and hoping for a bit of hand-holder to get a new install correctly configured inside an existing IIS/asp.net website. We want to leave existing site as is but to have WP serve pages from http://www.mySite.com/blog.

    I’ve stepped thru the WPI installer without hitting an error. But the first attempt to hit that address gave me an asp.net error on the web.config file – the root level’s web.config…not the one found in the :
    The configuration section 'standardEndpoints' cannot be read because it is missing a section declaration

    One seemingly relevant link talked about shifting the App Pool to v 4. so I changed from the default – ‘No Manged Code’ to the v4 framework. That gave me a different asp.net based error pointing to DLLs that run within the root site itself and definitely are not involved in the WP sub-site.

    Is the default install expecting to run as a sub-site (virtual directory)? I specified the \blog folder at the point of install show that _should have taken care of it.

    And yet – sit here with no joy and hoping someone can point me to prior art.

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  • Thread Starter amSteve

    (@amsteve)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Seems clear this is an ASP.NET/IIS config issue that’s being complicated by the fact that the ‘root’ of this website is based on asp.net code where as I’m trying to serve .php pages in a Virtual App under root. (is that a correct characterization and lexicon)?

    This server (a dedicated/co-located server) is already running a PHP/MySQL site so the PHP and mySQL prerequisites should be in place.

    Yet any attempt to hit any of the .php pages under my target site (asp.net at root) fails with the error source pointing to the root site’s web.config.

    The installer didn’t change anything in the root’s web.config – is there anything required there?

    Thread Starter amSteve

    (@amsteve)

    10 years, 3 months ago

    Despite that the web.config of the root _shouldn’t be effecting the php app in the virtual folder, it was. All the more strange in that no error was ever detected in the root’s web.config prior to installing WP.

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