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Faulting application name: w3wp.exe on IIS7 and PHP Windows Server 2008 x64

I try to run a website with Helicon Isapi Rewrite 3 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 with IIS 7.5 installed. The website is using PHP 5.2.16 on ISAPI mode. I use the request_uri.php solution (see code) for the bug in IIS.

The server error I get is: 404 - File or directory not found.

With in the Windows Application log this message:

Faulting application path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\inetsrv\w3wp.exe

Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll

I tried DebugDiag to find something, but it didn't give any more information. Do you have any idea what the problem might be? Thanks.

<?php
    if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL']))
    {
        $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_REWRITE_URL'];
    }
?>
Solution

  • The file was not found, because of a security issue.

    In IIS under Sites=>Authentication=>Anonymous Authentication=>Edit... and then I turned the anonymous user identity to Application Pool identity and it worked again.

    Hopefully other users will find this helpfull.

    thanks