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I'm trying to install Contao on Server 2016 with IIS as the hosting service. Is this possible? I've tried with composer, but nothing seems to work. All I get when I try to go to localhost/contao/install is page not found. Is there some re-write rule that I need? Thanks
Yes, look at the provided .htaccess for example. Any request (which is not physically present) will be rewritten to the app.php
Okay, so after doing some more digging around I found this on a site. I'll post it, just in case someone else has the same problem.
In the web folder you need a web.config file with the following rules
Code:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^app\.php(/(.*)|$)" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Redirect" redirectType="Permanent" url="/{R:2}" />
</rule>
<rule name="Imported Rule 2" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".?" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" />
</conditions>
<action type="None" />
</rule>
<rule name="Imported Rule 3" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".?" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="/app.php" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>
Now I'm having another problem though. I can't connect to the database. It's on a different server, everything is set right. I have an older version of contao connected to a different schema and all the rest of the info is the same and it works fine. Any ideas why I can't connect?
I created a demo of contao 4 on my Mac, it has no issues connecting to the database... All on the same network, trying to connect to the same machine. :(
So I just updated to 4.4.44 and I can't access the frontend anymore... :| What seems to be happening is if I run a rebuild production cache from the contao manager, it'll stop the site and in developer tools I see that there seems to be some endless loop of the page html.Quote:
Originally Posted by sawebdev
So whenever I try to go to the front end it hangs and is in an endless loop...
I'm thinking it has to do with the web.config, because if I load the page without rewrite rules by going to domain/app.php/home.html it loads, but as soon as I add the Imported Rule 3, it goes into the endless loop.
Any suggestions or is this some bug?
UPDATE:
I'm using IIS with php 7.2. I did a complete fresh install and as soon as I create some home page and try to access it, it just goes into this loop... Installed with no errors... Really confusing
I finally figured it out! :D It was a template error... Some template that I had edited, though don't see any edit that I made in the older template, but some changes made it so that the front end wouldn't properly load. :D