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I've been reading up a lot on CMS made simple, which seems to be great & enjoyed the demo. I never thought about the pain involved in a windows installation. I come from more of a .Net background...hope i still get respect I've followed steps to install MySQL & PHP 4.4. Can anyone help with trying to install in a windows environment? I haven't noticed anything on this in this forum.

Thanks,
Brandon

people here usually prefere WAMP or XAMP (I dunno which) to setup for windows boxes.... they don't seem to have much trouble with it.

I am running both .13 and 1.0 beta 5 of CMSMS on Windows XP professional.
MySQL 4.0.27 Php 4.4.4 Apache 2.0.59 PHPmyAdmin 2.8.2.2
Never used WAMP or XAMP.

I am also running many external sites on Linux boxes with MySQL - Apache - PHP and PHPMyAdmin.

Both environments run in a very similar fashion (meaning Great on both set-ups)!

Thanks for the tips!!!

Should I not use IIS?

IIS should work as well, but I think there's a larger chance to run into issues as CMSMS isn't tested on IIS very much afaik.

Yup it seems to work fine, although it's not as easy to install as Apache on Linux.

Funnily enough I had the option to use Apache/Linux but my client wanted the security of IIS... nuff said

Anyhow, I've got a site running under IIS with php 4.2.3 (the clients' host refuses to upgrade) and MySQL 4.0.

YOU REALLY need to use the install program and install from scratch - copying it across just doesn't work. Check that everything comes up as Success, if it doesn't then fix it before proceeding. The biggest hassle is usually in the php setup and making sure that pretty urls are off.

I also found that because the version of php (4.2.3) I spent a good half day organising people to do stuff like:

- enabling tokenizer (which just took an email to get switched on) and

- creating a workaround for the real_escape_mysql() function - which meant stylesheets created for the site didn't work - a simple hack on the stylesheet.php file to escape the query got it working.

The only issue other than that was the mail system... in the end for sanity I just 'rolled my own forms' and used a standard mime-mail class for email as CMSMailer didn't want to behave and IIS just doesn't get smtp or sendmail().

You can go to http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html and install XAMPP through a nice gui interface. It's very easy. At the MySQL users conference last spring several speakers recommended it as a quick and easy way to get up and running fast. It was also recommended in an Intermediate Co-ed class I'm taking right now.

with Xampp its working great on any windows platform.