Joomla! play nice with IIS7!

Cesar Quinteros — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:25:00 +0000

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.