I say slap WAMP on there and call it a day :D. Sorry dude, it does suck.
On Nov 17, 2007 2:19 PM, Christopher E. Franklin, Sr. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, John. Thanks for the reply and I totally agree with you on this > one but, the descision was made based on an idiot in Indiana who > already signed and payed 2.5 million to Microsoft to come in and > revamp our whole communications network from Great Plains accounting > servers to all TV channel and newspapers web sites to be transferred > to a server farm in the middle of no-where. The requirement is that > the site can easily be copied from our directories to thiers lol! > > Yes I do need a new job lol! This pays crap especially for > California. This company pulls in 175 mil profit a year (this is a > subsidary) and I barely make double min wage. It sucks but, it's the > only work I can find that deals with computers. The alternative is > installing alarm systems for Brinks or something in attics at 120 > degrees. Until I finish with my Bachelors, I am stuck. > > On the error, it seems that once I port over Cake to IIS6, uncomment > the correct line in core.php and clean out tmp, it still will not load > components and helpers. Some load, some do not. Namely the Session > component, Cookie component and the Html helper. > > Doing some tests in app_controller in the beforeFilter() method, I > tried to manually load all sorts of helpers and components. Those in > particular stop the site dead in it's tracks. > > Another peculiar thing, if I uncomment the App.baseUrl config in > core.php I get an error about the cake_logger not knowing what > LOG_ERROR is, even though it is clearly defined in core.php. (This is > from a fresh cake install). > > I will say this, I am at home right now on my laptop that has Vista > and looking at IIS7, I can get a fresh install of cake to work > complete with the urls looking like this: index.php?url=/controllers/ > controllerMethod/params1 > But, when I put my BFS (Big F***** Site) up there, I get the same > errors about cake not being able to load components, helpers, models > and controllers. Works fine on Apache with mod_rewrite, sucks on IIS > with nothing. > > I am also hoping that since, IIS7 has HttpRedirect module built in to > it, I can get something going that is sort of like mod_rewrite. /shrug > > Here's to hoping I can get something going this weekend. > > On Nov 16, 3:16 pm, "John David Anderson (_psychic_)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Nov 16, 2007, at 4:00 PM, Christopher E. Franklin, Sr. wrote: > > > > > > > > > I have been working with CakePHP for about a year now and have written > > > a company website in that year that totals in about 150MB of combined > > > PHP code. This whole time, I have been using MySQL, Linux, and Apache > > > to do my coding and testing but, recently, the corporate higher-ups > > > issued a mandate that all web servers are going to be IIS(6/7). > > > > > Upon hearing this, we installed Windows Server 2003 RC2 w/ IIS6.0 and > > > tried to port over the cake code. Low and behold, it doesn't work. Not > > > just a little bit but, in a bad way that the site stops dead in it's > > > tracks from not being able to load select components and helpers such > > > as , Session, Cookie, Html, Javascript, etc. > > > > You're gonna need to provide a lot more details for some help. But... > > > > > > > > > Today is my 3rd day fighting with this and my question is sad now > > > because, my manager wants me to abandon cake alltogether. So, that's > > > going to be 1.1 years worth of code, down the tube unless I can get > > > Windows IIS working with Cake (with or without re-write). > > > > ...let me get this straight. > > > > 1. Freaking huge web application works on current platform (150MB of > > code - is that like 5 or 6 million lines? I hope I'm reading that > > wrong). > > > > 2. Suits make unilateral decision to use a new (and imho, sub-par) web > > server. > > > > 3. When problems arise, rather than go back to what works, your boss > > wants to rewrite the aforementioned freaking huge web application. > > > > > So, the question: > > > Since I have followed every single tutorial I could find on the web > > > about installing Cake on IIS for the last 3 days (this includes me > > > testing if I could just put Apache on Windows which does not work) I > > > really have no other choice but to switch frameworks. > > > > Sounds to me like what you need to consider switching... is your job. > > Honestly. > > > > Execs that make really bad decisions, and a boss that wants to keep > > them happy by ditching a year plus of code? I don't think the choice > > of PHP framework is the problem. :) > > > > > Does anyone know of a pretty close match to CakePHP that WILL work > > > with IIS? Doesn't have to have rewrite. I just need something that I > > > can fairly easily port this code over to in about 2 weeks time. > > > > I suppose short term you might want to hire someone who can consult on > > that-or offer more details-but seriously. Make someone over there see > > some reason. > > > > $0.02 > > > > -- John > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
