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So, yesterday I had a lull at work and I took it upon myself to update our much-neglected internal knowledgebase (Drupal, naturally). It's an odd configuration -- PHP/MySQL running on IIS alongside a python timesheet program and an ASP application -- but it was working until a server crash a few months ago.

What I thought would be a quick job turned into eight hours of pain thanks to what I eventually realized was an obscure bug in IIS 4.0 and higher. If you're ever trying to install Drupal on IIS, save yourself the pain and do not run PHP in CGI mode. I posted a handbook entry on Drupal.org to share the pain. In a nutshell, IIS plus PHP in CGI mode means that server redirects on a web app's login page trash the session data. Converting to ISAPI mode solves it. After getting that sorted out, things seem to be humming along nicely. Hooray!

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