Hello, all.

Just found jVideoDirect and it looks promising for my needs. Unfortunately, it does not seem to work with IIS7 (Windows Server 2008).

I have other video components working fine on my server, and I no how to configure the pre-requisite. This is a dedicated server which is completely under my control and which I can configure every which way I want.

I have installed the component, and tried to do the "Check Up". It passes all the "PHP Configuration" checks, but it fails everything on the "Directory Permission" check.

I have adjusted the permission in many different ways, including giving anonymous FULL control to the "root\jMediaDirect" folder and all its sub-folder (yeah, I know, bad idea, but this is just a test). Nothing works. I have restarted the server after making the changes, but nothing works.

It appears to me that this component expects a Linux environment and doesn't know how to read Windows permission. Or, it could just be me doing silly stuff - again .

Please see the attached screen-shots. Has anyone successfully deployed this component on a Windows (IIS7) system? If yes, what did you have to do to get it to work?

If it is a known issue that this component doesn't work on IIS7, is there any plan to make it compatible in the future?

Awesome job, guys. This looks like a very good product that could go a long way way.

so you are setting it up for video uploading....good.

The logic for directory permission in checkup is below
for "add video mechanism" switched to "Fetch & Upload"

1. it uses exec() to trigger a command that include you PHP path given.
2. The command will execute a file located at administrator/components/com_jvideodirect/tools/checkup.php
3. It will create an empty file "index.htm" using fopen to joomlaRoot / jMediaDirect and every sub-directory under it.
4. a verification of the existence of this empty file in every location determine the result of this test.

The process is likely to be ownered by the username of apache, the directory and it's sub-directories are expected to be owned by apache, or relevant permission.

This mini-howto explain the logic behind.
You are an experience user. I hope you can understand it and diagnose the issue as we don't have the machine with us.

Let us know if you need any assistance, we can work together with you.
It will be helpful if you can post the solution here too.
and we are ready to make any adjustment to jVideoDirect.

Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, the solution provided is not applicable to my situation. This is a Windows Server, running IIS7, so there is no "apache" user on the box. There is the IUSR user, and the IUSRS group which are what you typically assign permissions and access to under IIS/Windows. I also run the Web application inside IIS, using a specific local user account, and that account has write/execute access to the jmediadirect folder and every file and folder below it.

Is your component specifically looking for an account called "appache"? If yes, I can create one and test.

Again, thanks for your assistance.

ok, the username who own the process triggered by php ...

the logic doesn't look specifically "apache".

we just need the right to write files as explained in the logic provided

Sorry, for the wording ....
php path should point to the php executable

c:\web-file\php\php.exe