First of all, I wanted to thank you for the invaluable guide installing IIS with PHP - your guide is the best! Got me all the way to my goal - installing Wordpress, which I imagine a number of folks are doing with this install.

Some things that came up during the installation:

1) I never found sections 2 and 4 - if you complete those that would be great!

2) Since I am using IIS 5 - the section on Web Service Extensions isn’t necessary - another blog help me figure that out - I would just note that.

3) The most difficult part of this installation stack is PHP. There are so many little configuration options, and you did a fantastic job of explaining them. I still don’t know if I got everything right, since I don’t see the session files, etc - but things seem OK.

but let me get to my comment.

You suggested adding a lot of extensions, which is great. But when it came time to install Wordpress, I started getting “Access Violation Error.” After a bit of digging someone noted that some of the extensions aren’t written for the multi-threaded IIS environment, so I commented all of the extensions, and things went smoothly from there. I thought this would be valuable. As well, it was hard for me to copy across all of the extensions - if you can put them in a list format so I could just copy and paste, that would be easiest!

Secondly, since many folks are going to use Wordpress, and especially mySQL with PHP, I would recommend adding a note to uncomment the mySQL dll extension.

Last comment - if you add a section 5 about installing and configuring wordpress, since you really seem to know it - that would make your blog the one resource we need!!

Thanks again!

GREAT tutorial for part 1 and part 3, but where are parts 2 and 4?

On the list at the beginning of this tutorial only 1 & 3 are hyperlinks and searching does no good.

I am at the stage of installing phpmyadmin and given the excellence of parts 1 & 3 would really like to use the guide on here.

TIA

I’m at the stage where I want to install phpmyadmin and given the quality of these guides I’d really like to see section 4.

TIA
Bryan

I’ve not gotten round to writing the tutorials for phyMyAdmin as yet; it is on my list of things to do; and will be working on it shortly; Keep checking back - something should be here in about a month or so.

Warm Regards,

Shabbir