Is it possible to install Magento on IIS 8?

[ollyyoung]

I have a IIS 8 webserver up and running complete with PHP 5.5 and MYSQL 5.6.

Is it possible to deploy Magento in this environment?

I added the following to index.php

ini_set("display_errors", 1); 

and I have tried but only get as far as "Customize Your Store" with a fatal error as follows.

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1792 bytes) in C:\inetpub\wwwroot\magento\vendor\composer\ClassLoader.php on line 412

I also added URL re-write to web.config

<system.webServer> 
     <rewrite> 
     <rules>  
      <rule name="Imported Rule 1" stopProcessing="true">  
       <match url=".*" ignoreCase="false"/>        
		<conditions> 
			<add input="{URL}" pattern="^/(media|skin|js)/" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />  
       			<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />  
       			<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />  
     		</conditions> 
		<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />  
     	</rule>  
    </rules>  
    </rewrite>  
   </system.webServer>  

[Dmitry_Fedyuk · Accepted solution]

The memory available for your PHP interpreter is too low (16M). You need give enough memory to PHP interpreter (I recommend 768M for Magento 2) . See  http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#ini.memory-limit

[maddyC]

You need to convert this apache config .htaccess to its equivalent in IIS. Note max_execution_time and memory_limit values. Also, there are some tools that help you convert from htaccess to web.config files: http://cbsa.com.br/tools/online-convert-htaccess-to-web-config.aspx

[ollyyoung]

I changed my max_execution_time and memory_limit values in my php.ini file to 20000 and 768 respectively.

This solved the issue of the installation. Now the installation completes fine and I have success page.

No other pages will load properly, I guess it is a problem with the URL rewrite.

Any ideas on how to debug URL rewrite?

[davidbcn]

I made a step-by-step instructions for Deploying Magento on IIS here:
http://www.drupalonwindows.com/en/blog/installing-magento-windows-and-iis

It uses integrator build and deployment strategies, and has updated web.config files and configurations.