IIS 7

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I put up a post on how to get Subtext to run locally on your PC, however I recently had to do a full re-installation of my laptop. and when I went to put a local copy of subtext back on during the install I got the error that you see below. So I did a search for the problem, some one mentioned that you need to make it so the Public Key is in Caps but no that didn't work. it turned out that it was because I had not installed the Ajax Extensions...

27 March 2008Add Comment

your php installation appears to be missing the mysql which is required for wordpress

So you have PHP and MySQL installed now but your local copy of Wordpress just isn't wanting to play ball.... Well it turns out that you need to make a few changes to your php.ini file. if you do a search for extension=php_mysql.dll and un comment it ie delete the ; at the beginning of the line then search further up in the ini file for extension_dir="./" and replace ./ with c:\php\ext (assuming your php is in c:\php) so it will look like: extension_dir="c:\php\ext". This tells php that the dllfor the php_mysql.dll is located in c:\php\ext. save your php.ini Also copy libmysql.dll from c:\php...

26 March 20087 Comments

Installing PHP on IIS7

I have been able to get subtext to work locally pretty easily as it uses the .net framework, but what if you wanted to play around with blog engines like wordpress or drupal on your local PC? Answer install PHP on your IIS installation. After searching a bit on the net I came across a blog on blogs.iis.net then went through the install of PHP on IIS 7. I was suprised at how easy it was, here is what I did to get PHP working on Vista/IIS 7: If you have not done so already install IIS, include ISAPI Extension component (for PHP-ISAPI)...

26 March 20082 Comments