OzNick

Thanks malfunction I guess my post was born of frustration more than anything. I have WHMCS running on my Windows Server environment quite well but as is typically the case there is a lot more work to do than just double clicking an msi package in windows. I've been in and around this industry since 2000 so I understand your comment about this space being crowded. But that can be a good thing too. If it wasn't, there would be little to no need for a system like this. Cheers

Thanks Brian and Chris I rolled back to PHP 5.6 and yep everthing ok. Not working on PHP 7.0 or 7.1 for future reference. Cheers

Chris: I have changed to eNom. Brian. Thanks heaps. Where/how to enable that template?

Ok Sorted whitelisting the server ip with eNom. Results are good in the log but still no joy on the customer portal....

I created an account with whom and have seen the up address error. I will whitelist the server up and let you know how I go. Thanks heaps for taking the time to look for me

Lookup provider i have tried both Whois and eNom Could be a password issue with the lookup provider i think. Is a username and password required for Whois Lookup provider? Did you give the link a try Chris?

I don't get any results at all... The Domain Spinner starts and says generating names but then everything stops and there are no suggestions at all. I have WHMCS 7.3, PHP7.0 using WhoIs lookup and my Registrar is TPP Wholesale. Whois logs show the lookup is working but the results are not displayed. any ideas? give it a try... http://www.redhot.com.au/webhost/cart.php?a=add&domain=register&query=westwebz.com Thanks in advance

Maybe if I get the time I will try and create a blow by blow experience of what I had to go through to get it all working. I think the only thing I am left to complete is the CRON (scheduled task) jobs, and of course setting up my services. Cheers!

That's fine Brian!. I get the *nix community is stuck in the dark ages. My point was simply that in an environment where there are multiple successful (nix, Windows etc) hosting environments then a company as WHMCS, who have a wonderful product, should aim to create seemless installs for all environments. OzNick

And really Chris, it is now 2017 and Windows hosting has been around for ages. To state that Windows is not one you test on or support might be an error on WHMCS part. Surely by now the value of all types of hosting environments is an important consideration when producing and improving a product such as this. There should be better support. I found the the installation klunky at best. I would hate to think about the business you are losing from people who are just beginning in the Web Host space. OzNick

OK.... Turns out the issue was FastCGi with a low timeout setting. Increased that in IIS and the install finished. Next, I got a Connection Error which turned out to be an issue with the installed cacert.pem being out of sync. Once that file was replaced everything went smoothly. Well, during the digging for the connection error there was a suggestion that there was a PHP issue so I changed the version from 5.X to 7.1X and ran into another ionCube problem which, thankfully only took a short time to resolve. Finally I can get on with setting up the system and get it talking to Plesk Onyx, TPP Wholesale etc...

Hi Chris Yes I have done that several times. Still breaks at step 5. I have updated a ticket with database info and install url. Hope we can get this working.

Hi Everyone, I have tried several times but installation keeps failing after step 5 of installation (WHMCS 7.3). Has anyone had an issue at this stage of installation? I have also tried running install again to invoke the upgrade script but it fails again with tblupdatehistory already exists. I am stumped! I am on Windows Server 2012, Microsoft Azure VM. Thanks in advance! OzNick