So, I have installed SS about 10 times now but they were all on LAMP machines. I was recently contracted to redesign a client's site and they are on a Windows-based host.

I uploaded and installed as i normally would with only the "Can't tell whether mod rewrite's on" warning. It went well until installation was complete and upon going to the home page, the CSS is not being called properly.

It is referring to css files located at www.xyz.com/index.php/themes/blackcandy/css/layout.css instead of www.xyz.com/themes/blackcandy/css/layout.css. I am sure it has to do with the mod_rewite but I am clueless as to how i should edit it as i am sure the .htaccess doesn't work on this package. I read elsewhere to look for a file called http.conf but i was unable to locate it anywhere in the host files.

So before I ask my client to back up everything so we can switch to a LAMP package on the host, i just wanted to know if there was an easy way to fix this.

Thanks!

On IIS 7.x you need to install IIS URL Rewrite and then run the SilverStripe 2.4 installer which will setup your web.config with rewrite rules.

I was having the same questions for windows hosting. Thank you for the replies, it was very helpful! I use http://www.serverintellect.com/ for my hosting.

Issue is with index.php
There is a line where a string comparison is done without taking into account of the different separators for windows and linux.
Change the following line
   $fileURL = (dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])=='/'?'':dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) . '/' . $url;
to
   $fileURL = (dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])==DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR?'':dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'])) . '/' . $url;
and that should solve your problem.