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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

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 ;)

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

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

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.