Help with install on Windows 2003 server???

[duplay]

I have been using CMS on my MAC server, but I need to transfer my site over to a NEW PC Windows 2003 Server and have some questions:

I am NEW to Windows Servers, so please "dumb it down" for me!
I am planning on leaving MYSQL on my MAC server (so I assume when I install on the PC, I will need to point my config.php file to my MAC server with my database?

How do I even begin with the PC server? I have admin access, but if I am going to link to the MYSQL on my MAC server, what do I need on the PC side to make this work? PHP?, a clean install of CMSMS on the PC server, How and what do I need to do to get PHP to work with IIS? I am new to IIS.

Any help or direction would be great!! Thanks

[tsw]

forget the windows server and use the mac if you can..

or switch to linux server..

(just my opinion tho, maybe someone knows something helpfull ;)

[duplay]

I love my MAC! But it is a PC world! So i am going to give it a shot. Do you have any ideas on a post I put abotu not being able to update certain pages on my CMS site? I update and submit, but they never show live (for some pages) If I login admin, open that page, my chnages are there, but never make it like. v.13


thanks


MJD

[tsw]

clear cache, thats about the only thing I can think of.. and ofcourse update to 1.0.2

[Dee]

On Windows I think I'd recommend using an Apache/MySQL/PHP install, not IIS.
Try XAMMP for example.

The problem of the content changes not appearing on the front-end almost certainly is a cache (permission) problem (the changes are there when you return to the admin, so the content is changed in the database).
Try clearing cache from the admin (Site Admin -> Global Settings in the menu). If that doesn't work, manually empty tmp/templates_c and tmp/cache and make sure permissions on those directories are set so that the webserver can write files there.