By Waldman-1 on
Hey everyone. I'm currently hosting my own web server running Windows Server 2003 and am wondering if anyone has had success installing Drupal on it. I have read a few that have quite a number of issues. I have installed Xampp which put PHP, mySQL, and Apache on for the server for me. Is there an installation document or configuration guide that exists that I am overseeing to work with Server 2003? I can get rid of Xampp if someone else has any other recommendations. I'd like to get this installed without having to switch OS's if at all possible.
ANY information would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
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I use XAMPP on Server 2003
I use XAMPP on Server 2003 for some testing and development. I think I had to set AllowOverrides to All in the configuration file to get clean URLs to work. I also remember I had to edit the small redirect file that XAMPP installs in its root htdocs directory (that they use to get the main XAMPP page to come up on install) to have it automatically direct to the index.php in my Drupal installation directory.
--keith
That doesn't seem too hard
That doesn't seem too hard then. I'm just worried I'll get into this installation and have to modify 10-15 files with parameters that I don't really understand. I'm fairly new to hosting my own stuff, but my site is currently just being ran by the Apache service on the web server. If I take the plunge on installing this I'll move it over to use the Xampp.
Other than modifying those files, you've had success with it?
Yeah. Of course, this is a
Yeah. Of course, this is a development box so I'm not sending a lot of traffic to it. But AFAIK, it works fine. (Which is not to say that initially getting it working, especially clean URLs, isn't a PITA.)
--keith
DRUPAL doesn't care much about o/s
from the book (you will definitly need it) Pro DRUPAL Development:
The operating system is at such a low level in the stack that Drupal does not care much
about it. Drupal runs successfully on any operating system that supports PHP.
More important is the webserver u are using. Apache seems the best choice.
I'm running Wserv2k3 + IIS + PLESK (providing MySQL / PHP / Perl etc).
Getting Clean URLs to work on ISS gave me quite some headache. Eventually I bought a sollution from Helicon, and now it works perfectly and I'm happy with my set-up.
But next time i'll use windows+Apache
cheers
How did you get Drupal Installed?
I'm on the same setup and cannot get Drupal installed using Plesk. It's seems to install, but than I can't get to the Drupal setup page?
I tried installing manually but have the same issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
John
jebernier@gmail.com