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All,

I installed CMSMS and everything seemed fine. But, when I go to the admin page, I get the following error:

FastCGI Error
The FastCGI Handler was unable to process the request.
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Error Details:

Error Number: 13 (0x8007000d).
Error Description: The data is invalid.
HTTP Error 500 - Server Error.
Internet Information Services (IIS)


Can anyone offer any guidance?

http://67.199.34.126/admin/login.php

Chrissy

I can navigate my way to the login page with no errors.. is there something I am not seeing?

Hi,

Thanks for your reply!  I am still not able to get to it....

How are you navigating to the login page?

Thanks,
Chrissy

i clicked on your posted link. i dont have any login details so i can proceed further but refer to the attached screen dump.

Thank you!

The reason I could never see it is because it cannot be viewed in IE, only in Mozilla.  HMMM, does anyone know why this is and if there is a way to fix it?

Thanks
Chrissy

I can't see anything odd.  I looked at the headers that Firefox sees and nothing looked out of the ordinary.  Looks like IE doesn't like something that IIS is dishing out..

Maybe try accessing it through your domain name instead of the IP address.

Maybe this might help:
http://forums.iis.net/p/1146747/1861017.aspx

You're not going to like my opinionated answer.  But if you want flexibility with configuring your website do not host it on a Windows server.  Windows servers for hosting a website is fine under only one of two conditions:

1) You have FULL Administrator access to the box. (it's not a shared hosting account, if it's a "virtual" account then it must be an actual virtual install of Windows and you have Administrative access to that install of Windows)

2) You only want to serve up plain static pages or simple ASP pages.  Even though PHP can run on Windows under IIS, I wouldn't use that as the tool for the job.  PHP, Apache and Linux make a much better combination in my opinion.

If you get any other sort of "shared" hosting or "virtual" hosting and are not an actual Administrator on the box, you've lost a lot of ability and flexibility as opposed to those using Linux/BSD based servers.  I'm no Microsoft or Linux fanboy.  I'm an advocate of using the right tool for the job.  In my opinion shared Windows hosting sucks.  You need Administrative access to be able to do a lot of things I can do on a very restricted Linux/BSD user account.

Fast CGI mode can also have it's own issues.  When it works, great, but I've read of too many people having problems with it.  If you search around you'll also find all kinds of applications that have odd issues with running in Fast CGI mode.

Thanks so much for taking the time to reply and help me out.  I really appreciate all the support.  Major karma to ya'll.