Any way, my idea was to isolate as much as possible the public from the application files and not rely on complex rewriting rules.

Best, Matias

*edit*

ok figured out the slowness issue. I had mysql host set to localhost and I guess it was having a hard time resolving so I set it to 127.0.0.1 and now it loads quickly.

I was getting 404 errors with your setup trying to serve the .woff fonts, I reverted back to my web.config and everything works as expected. The web.config I have doesn't require you to create files or setup virtual directories and you point to the root folder rather than the public folder.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="favicons" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="favicons/(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="data/favicons/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="thumbnails" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="thumbnails/(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="data/thumbnails/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="front controller" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|asc|txt|eot|woff|ttf|ttf|svg)$" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
<rule name="Rewrite" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" negate="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="favicons/" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="thumbnails/" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="public/" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="index.php" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="public/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

1 - Point Web Site to public folder rather than the root folder.
2 - Create a "index.php" file in public folder width the following line:
<?php chdir('../'); include('index.php'); ?>
3 - Set the web.config with the following data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Rewrite" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="^.*\.svg$|^.*\.ttf$|^.*\.css$|^.*\.js$|^.*\.jpg$|^.*\.jpeg$|^.*\.png$|^.*\.gif$|^.*\.ico$|^.*\.htm$|^.*\.html$|^.*\.txt$|^.*\.xml$|^.*\.xlsx$|^.*\.xls$|^.*\.swf$|^.*\.flv|^.*\.mp4|^.*\.ogg$" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?{R:1}" appendQueryString="true" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
<directoryBrowse enabled="false" />
<httpErrors errorMode="DetailedLocalOnly" defaultResponseMode="File"></httpErrors>
<staticContent>
<remove fileExtension=".ttf" />
<remove fileExtension=".svg" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".ttf" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
<mimeMap fileExtension=".svg" mimeType="application/octet-stream" />
</staticContent>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

4 - Modify the file "controllers\Index.php" (around line 180) function "update" remove the comparison "$_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] != $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']", because $_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] does not exists in IIS, or use LOCAL_ADDR instead.
5 - Add virtual directory "favicons" pointing to "<DIR>\data\favicons"
6 - Add virtual directory "thumbnails" pointing to "<DIR>\data\thumbnails"
7 - Enjoy!

The only issue I have now is that the app has slow performance, the page takes about 12 secs to load using PHP FASTCGI on iis 7.5, not sure why but I ended up giving up because I can get it to run fine with php/apache/mysql combo.

If you feel like looking at it again, I have it somewhat working. Still trying to figure some things out regarding the rewriting is IIS. For some reason it's not loading scripts or stylesheets within the page, however it does load fine if I hit it at http://localhost/all.css which is odd...

The htaccess file converted to url rewrite in IIS web.config:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<clear />
<rule name="favicons" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="favicons/(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="data/favicons/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="thumbnails" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="thumbnails/(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false" />
<action type="Rewrite" url="data/thumbnails/{R:1}" />
</rule>
<rule name="front controller" stopProcessing="true">
<match url=".(js|ico|gif|jpg|png|css|asc|txt|eot|woff|ttf|ttf|svg)$" ignoreCase="false" negate="true" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{QUERY_STRING}" pattern="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="false" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.php?{C:1}" appendQueryString="false" />
</rule>
<rule name="Rewrite" enabled="true" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="(.*)" negate="false" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="favicons/" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="thumbnails/" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="public/" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" pattern="index.php" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="public/{R:1}" />
</rule>
</rules>
</rewrite>
</system.webServer>
</configuration>

extension=php_pdo_mysql.dll

I tried as well to get this running on iis/php/mysql but I was having issues with the .htaccess rewriting wondering if you figured out how to solve this.

Here's the next thing I'm sure everyone here will balk at... I'm trying to run this on a GoDaddy shared hosting account... running Windows with IIS7 and PHP 5.3.

I'm trying to run it on mysql... I have the database set up and the config.ini has all of the connection data in it.

When I try to load selfoss in my browser, it returns an error:

Internal Server Error

Fatal error: Undefined class constant 'MYSQL_ATTR_INIT_COMMAND'

I also tried the sqlite, but it comes up with an error:

Internal Server Error

could not find driver

Any ideas?