I'm hosted on a Win2k3 box. So I have a few questions...

By Catfang on 2 Apr 2006 at 05:34 UTC

I have hosting from a company that uses Win2k3 Servers. I get multiple free MySQL databases and a good amount of space, but since it's not the Apache world that most OSS is written toward, I often run into issues. Drupal has installed and worked beautifully so far, but I have a few questions on some of the functionality I think I am missing.

First and foremost, how do I run stuff that normally is run by cron? I don't have access to a commandline or to scheduler, so does that mean I am up a creek without a paddle? I currently have no way to make the search function work.

What do I need to do to protect my installation? I'm pretty sure the htaccess files don't work on a Win2k3 box. Does that mean my drupal install is unsecure? What can I do to reduce my risk exposure?

Is there any hope of getting exiftran working if I don't have commandline/executable access?

Thanks again for any help, and if anyone else is developing with similiar restrictions, let me know what you are doing to work around them.

Comments

for cron use poormanscron

H3rnand3z commented 2 April 2006 at 08:05

for cron use poormanscron module.

Thank you!

Catfang commented 2 April 2006 at 18:03

With a little help from this site, I was directed to a poormanscron that worked for 4.7 and installed it. It appears to have worked, so that dilemma is taken care of! Thanks again!

Apache or IIS6? Fully

sepeck commented 2 April 2006 at 08:37

Apache or IIS6? Fully patched IIS6 is quite secure. PHP Install isapi or cgi? Lots more info needed. If you don't have access to scheduler or the host of the box won't do it then poormanscron would work for you.

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Catfang commented 2 April 2006 at 18:10

The setup is pure Microsoft from what I am able to tell. So definitely IIS6. As for the PHP, I'm guessing it's the install since my cgi folder is empty. Directories aren't searchable, but if someone knows (or guesses) the filenames then they can still download them. Is this an issue?