Super noob

[f33dback]

I am installing this coppermine for a college and tyey only use iis, I had no issues getting it to work on my host linux box but I am perplexed by iis and the other modules.
Is there a step by step guide somewhere?

[kegobeer]

Are you looking for a guide on how to set up and administer an IIS box?  We don't have that.  Installation of Coppermine is the same for any web server.  You must set permissions of certain folders/files, be it CHMOD or a Windows permission setting.

[f33dback]

Well IIS seems simple enough, andI feel I set the perms right, but when I try to run install.php it pops up "do you want to save this file" or "open with" lik I was downloading a file.

[Tranz]

Are you sure the server supports php?

[f33dback]

Are you sure the server supports php?

I think that's the issue, I have now (to date) followed 4 different installation guides for a manual install of php and I have used to exe install package.
I can not get the little test <? php
                                             phpinfo();
                                              ?>
snippet of code to do anything so I am assuming that means php is not working.

[kegobeer]

If you want to install php on IIS, follow the manual php installation steps on www.php.net.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php

Make sure to follow all the instructions.

[Joachim Müller]

If your server is meant to be available for the public (i.e. accessible on the internet) or a large LAN, I strongly advice you get some experienced webserver admin help: setting up a webserver to run in the first place can be hard enough, setting it up securely enough so it won't break by the first script kiddie's attack is yet another thing. I'm only giving this advice as a friendly posting, my intention is not to scare away a newbie: unexperienced people shouldn't run a webserver publicly (I know what I'm talking about ).

Joachim

[f33dback]

If you want to install php on IIS, follow the manual php installation steps on www.php.net.

http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.manual.php
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.iis.php

Make sure to follow all the instructions.

That was one the 4 I tried, it did not work, however I was able to find another install guide that did.(so php works now)
I guess this guy was as frustrated as me and wrote one =)
Thanks for the help guys now I off to install mysql and imagemagick.
Wish me luck.

[Joachim Müller]

You won't need ImageMagick, as GD usually comes with PHP. Setting up ImageMagick can be a pain on Windows.

Joachim

[f33dback]

You won't need ImageMagick, as GD usually comes with PHP. Setting up ImageMagick can be a pain on Windows.

Joachim

Actually imagemagick was the eaiest part, I wanted to post to say this is solved I have it working now.
I also thought I would add that most of my problems were misplaced files or permission issues.
It took me about 4 days to figure everything out as I have never used IIS, PHP, or mysql. ---> here is the tutorial that got me going on php.
http://www.faqts.com/knowledge_base/view.phtml/aid/28265
Lots of good stuff on the root of that URL.
Phew....thanks for the help here guys =)

[Tranz]

Thank you for sharing the link so others may benefit.