Upgrade & Fresh Install giving me 404 - The page cannot be found errors

[Lawrence Morris]

I first attempted upgrading from vb4 to vb5 beta. All of the forums on the first page are present. After the first page, every link I clicked on was leading to a 404 - "The page cannot be found" error. I also noticed that the admincp had been moved to the core directory.

I then wiped these files and started again. Instead of connecting to the old existing database, I created a new one and tried to do a fresh install from scratch... Same problem... The first page loads fine. After the first page, I get nothing but 404 errors. Anything I click on including the login gets 404 - The page cannot be found errors.

I'm pretty lost. I've seen similar issues on this board, but I didn't want to hijack some one else's post with my own questions.

My URL: http://blog.oncenter.com/vb5

I have attached my config.php from the vb5 directory and copied my httaccess file into text file so that I could attach it.

[Zachery]

Did you upload the web.config fi;e?

[Lawrence Morris]

Below is the web.configure file contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- This file is to support redirection in IIS.
This file is harmless if you are running under Apache -->
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Installer" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^install/" ignoreCase="true" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="core/install/" />
</rule>
<rule name="Main Redirect" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="Admincp" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(admincp/)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

[Lawrence Morris]

The web.config was uploaded to the blog.oncenter.com/vb5 directory.

[Zachery]

What version of IIS is your webhost providing?

[Lawrence Morris]

Server is Windows 2003
IIS V6.0

PHP V 5.3.21

[Zachery]

vBulletin 5 requires url rewrite support, which requires a third party addon in IIS6, you need to be on IIS7, 7.5 or 8 to get url rewrite support out of the box. If you need to stay on iis6, you'd need a third party system plugin for IIS itself.