gatorcast from paul smith

This is my first post. Boy was it crazy getting WordPress setup on my web server. It is a Windows 2000 runing IIS 6. You see I have 9 years experience in the Microsoft SQL/IIS environment, so attempting this was out of the ordinary for me.

I started by having one of my employees, Ananda, setup PHP on our main production webserver. I asked him to setup MySQL, but I guess he ran out of time on Friday. So after I installed MySQL on a test server at home, I got enough courage to install MySQL on this server. Ok. I was ready. So I followed the instructions from the readme in WordPress and ran into an error saying that it could connect to my database server, but could not find the database. At first it took me a while to figure out that I needed to actually create a database in MySQL called WordPress manually. Duh. I thought it would have been created for me using the \wp-admin\install.php. So I used friendly Google to see how to actually do this. To my surprise it was rather easy (i.e. mysql> CREATE DATABASE wordpress) Makes me think of my DBase days.

Anyway, next it created my tables and then asked me to login. Then crash, error ‘Directory Listing Not Allowed’. Ah, it only took me 9 minutes and another friendly Google to see that all that ISS was complaining was that I needed ‘index.php’ as an allowed default document type under my web. And Violage! Here I am.