Setting up Vanilla on IIS with Helicon APE

ultraloveninja

So, I am attempting to set up vanilla on a Win2k8 server (IIS 7).

I am putting it into a subfolder on the site under /forum.

I try to go to http:///thedomain.com/forum and get a 404.

So, I have installed helicon APE to handle the re-write for the URL.

I've made the .htaccess file as follows:

# Modified # If you modify this file then change the above line to: # Modified <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On # Certain hosts may require the following line. # If vanilla is in a subfolder then you need to specify it after the /. # (ex. You put Vanilla in /forum so change the next line to: RewriteBase /forum) RewriteBase /forum RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php\?p=$1 [QSA,L] </IfModule>

I uploaded it to the server in the forum folder and still no go.

Not too sure what I could be doing wrong. I am assuming that helicon is working correctly too, but I could be an issue with that as well.

Anyways, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

ultraloveninja

I think I figured it out. I threw the .htaccess file in the root of the directory and it appears to be working ok.


But now I am getting a 500 error. Back to fishing...

UnderDog

.htaccess and IIS don't go together. There must be another solution :-)

ultraloveninja

That's what the Helicon APE is for:

http://www.helicontech.com/ape/

It allows for IIS to do rewrite on an .htaccess