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Phpmyadmin is a free software tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the World Wide Web. phpMyAdmin supports a wide range of operations with MySQL. Since Windows doesn’t include a GUI  managment tool for Mysql, you will need to install phpMyadmin to acess a GUI  rather than administratering Mysql via the command line interface.

Please be sure that your php installation already has the GD/GD2 Library, Mysql and MBString extensions active. You can see this by going to your IIS server and accessing the php test page. If you do not have one, you can make one by going to “C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ and my creating a text with the following line;

<? phpinfo(); ?>

Save the file as phptest.php.

This will allow you to goto Http://localhost/phptest.php. If you don’t see the Mysql or MBstring sections, you will need to have them enabled to proceed as phpMyadmin requires this.
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Tags: IIS7, MySql, PhpMyAdmin

IIS v7 is included with Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista. These are the steps required to install IIRF on either of those operating systems.
Installing on IIS7 – Vista or Windows Server 2008

To configure IIRF on IIS7, follow these steps:

1. open the IIS Manager. On Windows Vista, do this through Start…Control Panel…Administrative Tools.

Administrative tools in Windows Vista / Windows 2008

Selecting IIS Manger

IIS Manager in Action

2.  If you would like to configure IIRF to be a “global filter” (applies to all websites and virtual directories), then, select the machine or server name on the left-hand side tree. This should be the top-most (root) node in the tree.

Install Ionic Rewrite Filfer for your server

If you would like to configure IIRF for an individual web site, expand the server node, and select the appropriate web site on the left-hand side tree. tree.

Installing IIRF for a particular web site

3. In either case, in the center-right panel of the MMC window you should now see a set of icons. One of them is labeled “ISAPI Filters”. Double click it. Your window should look similar to the following:

4. On the far right hand side in the “Action Pane” for the MMC window, click the top-most item, which reads “Add…”.

5. You get a simple dialog with a box for filter name and a box for the path to the Filter DLL. Type in “IIRF” for the filter name, and the full path for the DLL, eg, c:\windows\system32\inetsrv\IIRF\IsapiRewrite4.dll .

Adding an ISAPI Filter

Note:  Be sure to allow the appropriate user read + execute access to this path.

Click OK.

6. Copy your ini file into the same directory.

      The filter is now installed.
7. On Windows Server 2008, insure that the IIRF DLL is allowed to run: In the left hand side of IIS Manager, click Web Service Extensions. On the right hand side, right click the IIRF extension, and click Allow.

 8. Note: If your OS is 64-bit, you must select “Enable 32-Bit Application” in the Advanced Settings on the App Pool, in order to let IIRF run.

*All information taken from the original site – http://cheeso.members.winisp.net/IirfHelp/frames.htm *

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Tags: IIS7, Ionic Isapi rewrite

Adding a Default document to IIS7 is quick and easy. This article will show you how to add and prioritize these documents. You will first want to log in to IIS on the server. Once there, expand the “website” tree and select the domain that you wish to edit.

In the “IIS” settings for this domain, you will notice a “Default Document” button. Click on this.

You will now be in a section of IIS that shows you the existing list of Default Documents, and the order that they are prioritized in. To add a new document, look to the right of the screen for the “Add” button.

Once the document has been added, you can alter the priority level using the tool bar on the right.

This will allow you to move up or move down documents, which will set the priority of how these documents are accessed. That is all!

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1. To get started, lets goto the Server Manager and open up the IIS manager. You can do this by going to Start -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.

2.Once IIS Manager opens, expand out the web server and then expand the Sites folder. Right click on sites and then click on Add Web Site

3. In the Add Web Site window we have some basic information to fill out for a static site: Site Name – Name of the site, this will be either domain.com or *.domain.com (Where * would represent a sub domain name such as www or blog for example). Physical Path – The location on the local server that will hold the files for the website. If you did not set this up beforehand you can create a folder through this interface. Type – choose either http or https depending on whether your site will use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) certificate or not. IP Address – From the dropdown you can specify what IP the website should answer on or use the default switch of All Unassigned. Now, if you have multiple IP addresses, you can simply choose the one you wish to assign to the website as well. Lastly, if you even neeed to change the IP address, you can do so by going back and clicking on binding’s, which will take you to the section that allows IP address changes. Host Name – If you would like this site to respond to other domain names you can put these here.

4. That’s it. You’ve just configured your first website in IIS7. While it is a bit different from IIS6, the process is still the same.

Tags: IIS7, Internet information server, setup, Website

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Installing FastCGI And PHP on Windows Server 2008

As opposed to previous versions of Windows Server, the FastCGi module is already bundled with Windows Server 2008 so you don’t have to install it.

First of all, let’s make sure that the CGI role service is installed. Click on Start => Programs => Administrative Tools => Server Manager. Expand Roles, right-click on Web Server (IIS) and select Add Role Services. Make sure that CGI is checked and if not proceed with its installation.

Next head over to PHP.net’ download page and download the PHP Non-thread-safe Win32 binaries. At the time of this writing, the latest version of PHP is 5.2.5. Extract the content from the PHP archive into c:\php.

Launch the Internet Information Server Manager by clicking on Start => Programs => Administrative Tools => Internet Information Server Manager. Select your server from the left panel and then double-click on the Handler Mappings icon.

Click on Add Module Mapping from the right column:

Fill-in the PHP module mapping information as illustrated below and click on OK when done:

At this point PHP should now be working even though there no php.ini configuration file yet. To find out if PHP files are parsed correctly, create a new file at the root of website’s folder and name it phpinfo.php. Insert the following content into the file and save it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Now try pointing your web browser to http://yourserver.com/phpinfo.php. If everything works properly you should see this page:

Configuring PHP

By default, IIS will look for PHP’s configuration file (php.ini) in c:\windows. To change this, launch the registry editor (Start => Run => regedit) and add a new key named PHP in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\. Under the newly created key, create a new value named IniFilePath and set its value data to c:\php.

Close the registry editor when you’re done. Using the Windows Explorer, rename c:\php\php.ini-recommended to c:\php\php.ini and open it with your favorite text editor (no word processor). Find the extension_dir parameter and set its value to “c:\php\ext”. You might also want to uncomment extension=php_mysqli.dll and / or extension=php_mssql.dll if you plan to use MySQL or MS-SQL.

Once you’re done editing PHP’s configuration file, save it and close your file editor. You will need to restart IIS in order to apply the changes. This can be done through the IIS Manager:

Tags: FastCGI, IIS7, PHP, Windows