Hi I'm having this problem when I try to install vanilla on my win2003 server.

I'v set up this in aggp/settings.php

define("agAPPLICATION_PATH","C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomain.com\httpdocs\vanilla");

But when I run the installer, it gives me this info:

Vanilla is going to need read AND write access to the following files:

* C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomain.com\httpdocs\vanilla/appg/settings.php
* C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomain.com\httpdocs\vanilla/appg/extensions.php
* C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomain.com\httpdocs\vanilla/appg/language.php
* C:\Inetpub\vhosts\mydomain.com\httpdocs\vanilla/database.sql

I'm confused with those forward and backward slashes.... What should I do to set up this correctly?

Thanks

I'm thinking its more the permissions line of things but changing the slashes is sensible anyway.

That said i cant even get php and iis working :(

Set those files to be readable, writable by Everyone and try again, if that works then work out what the IIS permissions need to be.

I think the installer actually uses getcwd and not what is in the settings file but I don't think that is causing your problem, if it is though you could find where getcwd() is called in the installer and replace it with the string of your path with forward slashes.

When IIS serves a page, it uses the IUSER_MACHINENAME as the user who does it. So, you need to grant IUSER_MACHINENAME read and write permissions to those files. Of course you will need to substitute "MACHINENAME" for the name of your machine.

Also, when it comes to back/forward slashes, windows doesn't care what you use, so I just always build my paths with forward slashes so that it will work on both linux and windows without any problems.