installer redirect broken in IIS with php running as CGI

[Denis-de-Bernardy]

it looks for ./css/install.css

might it be ./admin/css/install.css instead?

D.

I'm tracing this to:

function wp_admin_css_uri( $file = 'wp-admin' ) {
	if ( defined('WP_INSTALLING') )
	{
		$_file = add_query_arg( 'version', get_bloginfo( 'version' ), "./$file.css" );
	} else {
		$_file = add_query_arg( 'version', get_bloginfo( 'version' ), get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "/wp-admin/$file.css" );
	}
	return apply_filters( 'wp_admin_css_uri', $_file, $file );
}

should be more like:

function wp_admin_css_uri( $file = 'wp-admin' ) {
	if ( defined('WP_INSTALLING') )
	{
		$_file = add_query_arg( 'version', get_bloginfo( 'version' ), "./" . ( strpos('wp-admin', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) === false ? 'wp-admin/' : '' ) . "$file.css" );
	} else {
		$_file = add_query_arg( 'version', get_bloginfo( 'version' ), get_option( 'siteurl' ) . "/wp-admin/$file.css" );
	}
	return apply_filters( 'wp_admin_css_uri', $_file, $file );
}

better yet:

<?php wp_admin_css( 'css/install' ); ?>

should be more like:

<?php wp_admin_css( 'wp-admin/css/install' ); ?>

in wp-admin/install.css

(or conditionally based on whether wp-admin is in there or not)

D.

along the same lines, the log is missing too

(I'm really tired, it was of course meant in the wp-admin/install.php file, not the wp-admin/install.css file)

lastly, the url in the form submit seems wrong. so it may simply turn out that a redirect is missing. in any event, the installer seems very broken, or at least it is on my windows box...

investigating this still further, the underlying issue seems to be the redirect to the installer when loading this in IIS running php as CGI. I've tried in *nix and it worked quite fine over there.

It is a niggle for development servers. One can work around it by "manually" visiting wp-admin/install.php obviously, but it would be sweet if it worked out of the box...

and while we're at it, when you get redirected from wp-admin/install.php to wp-config.php on the same platform, you get an error whereby wp-config.php is not around, even though it is... reloading works, but it's kind of weird.

2.3.1 has been released moving to 2.3.2

works now