Dolphin 7.0.7 does not work on IIS Servers. This is the reason:

Dolphin 7.0.7 is operational, but unfortunatelly because all Windows servers and IIS servers do not use nor recognize the ".htaccess" controll and mapping script, anything handled by those mappings do not work at all. That means, most if not all modules including the MEMBERS profiles, non can be seen at all.  I can see them if I reference the page manualy by typying members.php?id=[username] and it works well that way, but off course users do not know those details.  In order to make Dolphin fully compatible with the Windows environment, you would have to use relative paths everywhere not needing any mappings at all. That means, not using the .htaccess script at all.

The mapping mecanism in IIS does not provide the resources required but a very basic mapping methode wich in the case of Dolphin it is way too precarious. Another quick solution to the problem would be creating a PHP script to handle all mappings automatically before calling any webp age and without the need of the .htaccess script, and calling it before any other process.

Is there any solution available to this problem?  Thanks!

Technically IIS is not supported. Per the hosting requirements http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolTech only Apache or LiteSpeed.

However you could try shutting off all the permalinks under the settings in the administration panel

I run dolphin under IIS 7 just fine with all permalinks and have mod rewrite working with .htaccess....

Dolphin_Jay: Would you please share with us how you did it?   

Can you send me the Web.Config file? or the Mapping Script if you made one!

I am using IIS 6.0 wich is not radically different in behavior than IIS 7, it is actually working on IIS 6.0 now, but only those pages mapped by .htaccess don't work at all.

I can not install Apache because I have about a dozen sites in IIS (.NET FRAMEWORK).  oouuppss!!

Cheers!

Deano92964 said: However you could try shutting off all the permalinks under the settings in the administration panel

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And guess what? It actually worked! Almost every module now works fine by just turning off all Permalinks

from the Aministration menu.

The Orca Forums don't work at all, It still looks for a ./Forums folder that doesn't exist at all.  Any idea how to fix this error?

Without permalinks it will work.

Also, you can write your own IIS rewrite rules to make it work under IIS with urlrewrite.

LOL!!!! I love it when a good plan comes together!  (sort of!)

some links you might want to look over:

www.isapirewrite.com

www.urlrewriter.net

http://iirf.codeplex.com

ofcourse iis 7 as the web plateform tools so you can manage pretty much everything about php..