Microsoft-IIS

Running OSSN on IIS (We still don't official support IIS) but OSSN works well with it.

Server creation / Pre-requisites

• Making sure Windows Server 2019 or newer

• Making sure IIS 10 or newer is installed

• Making sure to install CGI for IIS (IIS -> Applications -> CGI when Adding new ROLE), remember to find it you need to click small arrow in the list of IIS.

  

• Installation of PHP 8.1 C:\PHP\

• Installation of ioncube loader 12 if using premium social network

• Enable all required PHP extensions for OSSN see list of required extensions https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/wiki/view/706/how-to-install-open-source-social-network

• Once installed PHP add it into environment variable C:\PHP\

• Verify environment variable by restarting CMD and run php -version

• Now add FastCGIModule for IIS Under Handler Mapping

  

  Request path: *.php Module: FastCgiModule Executable: "C:\PHP\php-cgi.exe" Name: PHP via FastCGI

  

• Now put index.php with content

  <?php 
  phpinfo();
  

• RUN http://127.0.0.1/index.php and see if you see php information if so that means php works.

• Now install MySQL with MySQL workbench to manage database. If you wanted to use MariaDB then install that.

• Create database for OSSN

OSSN installation

• Download latest version
• Put it under C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
• Extrat the content of this repository in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\
• Now create a folder C:\inetpub\ossn_data\

ADDING WRITEABLE PERMISSIONS

• Right click on C:\inetpub\ossn_data\ ossn_data folder and go to security tab -> Add
• After adding select the IIS_IUSRSuser with making sure in bottom you select Full control.
• Same with C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ in this step you only need to select IIS_IUSRS

Access installer

Now access the installer by http://127.0.0.1/