I happily use WordPress, but I have also seen unlimited potential in Joomla! As a developer I jumped with joy when I heard my hosting company GoDaddy was using II7 on new Windows server accounts (since I’d be able to create PHP as well as ASP pages on it side by side). However my jumping ceased after installing Joomla! once I received “500- Internal server error” messages when I would try to use the search or poll options. This terrible let-down unfortunately was not supported by the hosting company and after a few Google searches which left me confused, I decided to take matter into my own hands. I shall fix Joomla! so that other II7’ers as well as myself can use it!
Thus far I have noticed only five problems with Joomla! on IIS7, three of which I have solved. Below I describe them and provide the fix I found for them.
1. Search
File: components/com_search/controller.php
Line: 70
Add Value: $uri->setVar('view', 'search');
Reason: This adds the "view=search" parameter to the URL to allow the search view.
2. Vote Button
File: components/com_poll/controller.php
Line: 93
Replace Value: $this->setRedirect( JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_poll&id='. $poll_id.':'.$poll->alias.$itemid, false), $msg );
With Value: $this->setRedirect( JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_poll&view=poll&id='. $poll_id.':'.$poll->alias.$itemid, false), $msg );
Reason: This adds the "view=poll" parameter to the URL to allow the poll view.
3. Vote Results Button
File: modules/mod_poll/tmpl/default.php
Line: 39
Replace Value: onclick="document.location.href='< ?php echo JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_poll&id=$poll->slug".$itemid); ?>'"
With Value: onclick="document.location.href='< ?php echo JRoute::_("index.php?option=com_poll&view=poll&id=$poll->slug".$itemid); ?>'"
Reason: This adds the "view=poll" parameter to the URL to allow the search view.
4. Top News button
Problem: News button on top horizontal menu returns the message:
Error loading feed data. Error: Feed not retrieved.
Probable error: Something wrong with the feed generating code? Uncertain.
5. News Feed link on left menu
Problem: News Feeds link on left takes you to a catergories page. The links there generate a page not found error.
Probable error: Malformed URL posted by the application. Also high possiblities of a bad interpretation when recieving a good URL. These are tough! Any suggestions?
August 6th, 2008 at 5:34 AM
Have been looking for this answer for a long time! Can’t wait to give it a try later tonight.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:34 PM
Just tested…works GREAT…thank you!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:56 AM
hello
with the default template it works also fine for me on IIS7. But then I addes RocketTheme equinox template (rt_equinox_i16) set it as default and then get the error 500 when I run “preview”. (although I got message Install Template Success) Any idea?
Thank you for your help
Regards Andy
August 21st, 2008 at 9:36 PM
I am not sure because I haven’t really experimented with other templates. I’ve been trying to get this working correctly so that THEN I could invest in a nice template. However I can give you a few suggestions of things to check.
First, is your Joomla directory writable? I use godaddy.com as my hosting company and had to make my directories writable myself in order for some things to work on Joomla and WordPress. I don’t think they have the installation of these apps down right just yet.
Second, don’t trust preview! lol I say apply the template then look at it from your site’s URL. There could be something wrong with the preview function.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:01 AM
Cesar -
Sam Moffatt has created a patch that is available on the Joomla! tracker http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomla/tracker/?action=TrackerItemEdit&tracker_item_id=10175 for IIS that should help you, too.
These instructions http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=428&t=265988#p1390393 will help you test. Please report your findings in that thread.
Thanks!
August 24th, 2008 at 12:33 PM
Andy,
I believe you left a comment after Amy. It was deleted because of some problems I was having with WordPress 2.6. My appologies.
Everyone else,
Thanks to Amy and Sam for helping find an alternative fix for the Joomla search and poll functions. The fixes should be included in the next version of Joomla, here is a link to that.
http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=431&t=265988&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=30#p1392017
Hopefully we can move on to other fixes now.
September 12th, 2008 at 1:49 AM
Thanks a million. This worked Great.
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