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Install On IIS 10

Description

How do I host a PmWiki website on Internet Information Services 10? e.g. for Windows 10.

Prerequisites

• ensure your server has a fixed IP address
• create server folders for your website data
• if your website is external
  • ensure your domain name is registered to your external static IP address
  • ensure your router is configured to forward traffic on port 80 to your server machine
  • ensure your router is configured to forward traffic on port 443 to your server machine for HTTPS

Site basic settings

Site advanced settings

Instructions

These instructions were based on Windows 10 home, therefore Windows Server Manager was not available.

• click to install PHP on Windows using the Microsoft Web platform installer (deprecated 31 Dec 2022)
  • or see PHP install on Windows systems

Create folders for your website on the server,

• install or copy your PmWiki website to (say)

Note: physically this is a directory such as D:\home\website\pmwiki\.

Set site's specific application pool identity

The site specific application pool identity looks like this "IIS AppPool\TheSite"

Set website to use application pool identity

Website folders permissions

wiki.d folder permissions

IIS configuration from IIS Manager

• right (context) click in the Connections pane
• choose the Add Website action

• IIS uses anonymous authentication for PmWiki website users. From the IIS site entry
  • open Authentication
  • select "Anonymous Authentication" and then "edit ..."
  • select "Application Pool Identity"

You may wish to configure the website

• set default document (to index.php, index.html, or pmwiki.php)
• turn compression on (or off)
• disable (or enable) directory browsing

File Permissions

Ensure the "virtual application pool identity"^{[1](approve sites)[2](approve sites)} (IIS AppPool\WebsiteAppPoolName) permissions are set for the folder in which your pmwiki.php or index.php resides. The defaults values of "Read & Execute, List Contents, Read" are sufficient.

For the folder wiki.d add to the "virtual application pool identity" (IIS AppPool\WebsiteAppPoolName) permissions "Modify, Write".

If you wish to enable uploads add the "virtual application pool identity" (IIS AppPool\WebsiteAppPoolName) permissions "Modify, Write" to the folder uploads.

Setup a secure service in IIS

• see Setup a secure Service in IIS

You will want a certificate, a self-signed certificate won't cut it these days

• Lets Encrypt is a free, automated, and open Certificate Authority
  • Certify the Web provides a native client to acquire and install a Let's Encrypt certificate

Notes

If you copied your PmWiki site from elsewhere you may have to delete the .flock file in the wiki.d directory.

To increase the file upload size above 30MB ensure that

• in config.php you have set $UploadExtSize for the extensions required (eg $UploadExtSize['jpeg'] = 12000000; # limit .jpeg files to 12MB)
• using Server Manager open request filtering, choose edit feature settings, and change the Maximum allowed content length (Bytes).
  • to save file user iisreset /stop from the command line, then save file, then iisreset /start,

Configurations

The following are configuration options that may be useful

Query strings containing "+" sign

From StackOverflow: '+' symbol problem in URL in IIS 7.x IIS7 introduced new URL filtering rules for security reasons. So '+' sign is blocked by default as part of security reason in URL.

To resolve this issue set allowDoubleEscaping="true" in web.config files.

<system.webServer>
<security>
  <requestFiltering allowDoubleEscaping="true">
  </requestFiltering>
</security> 

Release notes

If the recipe has multiple releases, then release notes can be placed here. Note that it's often easier for people to work with "release dates" instead of "version numbers".

See also

• install Cookbook:PHP
• installation Obtaining and installing PmWiki
• Cookbook:InstallOnIIS
• Cookbook:InstallOnIIS7dot5plus Install PmWiki on Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7.5 plus

Install IIS and PHP on WS2012 (learn.Microsoft)

• Install and configure PHP on IIS (learn.Microsoft)

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