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I don’t know the right way to word this, but I’m fixing an Expression Engine site that I’ve already developed on my test site and turned the files over to the client. Their IT department didn’t know how to deploy it, I’m being brought back in to get the site launched. I can not upload anything to the FTP, only view files. I do not have any access to the hosting control panel and have been provided the following as the path for the root folder:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\websitedomain.com

I’m used to having the folder path be something like:

web/root/username/whatever

I didn’t think putting in the client provided path was going to work. But I tried it anyways and of course it doesn’t work.

What do I need to do? This is the message from the client’s hosting company about this issue:

The root of Expression Engine is C:\inetpub\wwwroot\websitedomain.com.  That being said, it is not the root of the web or FTP site.  The root of the web/FTP site is C:\inetpub\wwwroot\websitedomain.com\web.  For security purposes we have moved the EE “System” directory out of the root of the web/FTP site onto the same level; as the web folder, thereby making it inaccessible to the internet.

I appreciate any input.

That’s Microsoft IIS.  Their IT department needs to be fired haha.  I’m guessing the client is just doing their own hosting without knowing how, so… good luck :/

Here’s something that may help you:  http://www.iis.net/learn/application-frameworks/install-and-configure-php-applications-on-iis/expressionengine-on-iis

and http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/210619/

Looks like the url to use may be localhost in this scenario.  Just a guess of something to try, I’m really unfamiliar with IIS.

If anything, re-submit this question (or edit title if you can?) with IIS in the title, and you may get the help you need.

From I remember, PHP assumes UNIX-style directory paths - so it won’t work with Windows-style paths. But it should work if you take the Windows-style path and reformat it to UNIX-style - so this path:

C:\inetpub\wwwroot\websitedomain.com

Would become:

/inetpub/wwwroot/websitedomain.com

And I believe that using double-backslashes will also work - E.g.

C:\\inetpub\\wwwroot\\websitedomain.com

But personally, I think the UNIX-style paths are cleaner.

Sounds like they move your system folder to above webroot, for security purposes. EE User Guide has some guidance on doing this:

http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/installation/best_practices.html