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I've backed up a site on an apache server and uploaded the zip files to a new IIS server. I uploaded the latest kickstart (3.1.4) but when I try to run it nothing happens, I just get a blank brown screen.

The IIS server is administered by a client's outsourced IT people so I have little to no control over this. I'm not all that familiar with IIS so there may be something obvious I'm missing but I assumed it would simply work.

The server is twj733.cluster12.net and obviously the kickstart file is in the root folder (i.e. http://twj733.cluster12.net/kickstart.php) but as I indicated, when I browse here, nothing happens.

Thanks

Rikki

Hi Rikki,
IIS Servers are Microsoft servers, not Linux. You need to have a Linux server in order to run php and joomla.

Hi Rikki,

IIS Servers are Microsoft servers, not Linux. You need to have a Linux server in order to run php and joomla.

Hi Steph - thanks for your response but I don't think that's correct. I am successfully using joomla on a few other Microsoft IIS platforms that are running php and Joomla. I'll keep waiting for another response... unless someone else tells me I'm wrong... it's happened.

Rikki

Thanks Nicholas - according to the cloud hosts, they are running PHP 5.3.3 so per your post it would seem that this should work. In correspondence with them they mentioned that "it may have some obscure issues with the caching configuration we use"... not sure what that is supposed to mean but I'm going to let them look into it a little more. It is reassuring to know that the PHP version does not appear to be the issue though.

The cloud hosts did have a look at the script (kickstart.php) and indicated that they see "Fatal error: Call to undefined method AKUtilsLister::setWarning()" on line 4271 which they said was the last line. When I look at kickstart, this line is:
$this->setWarning( 'Unreadable directory '.$folder);

This is clearly not the last line of the script but if I look at the page source of the "blank brown" page that results when I run the kickstart.php file, it is the last line so I presume that kickstart.php errors out at this point and does not complete loading.

PHP error logging was switched off so I've enabled it and will check out what is written but hopefully the above should help.

Thanks for all your help so far... akeeba pro rocks.