gatorcast from paul smith

Yesterday the losers developing an unnamed development on the corner of 13th st and University tore down a Gainesville landmark. I think it wrong and believe that if this continues, Gainesville will look a lot like South Florida. Burrito Brothers Taco Co. will continue despite tearing down the brick and mortar. Standing on the street this morning reminded me of all of the times I walked through those doors (or waited outside to get in). I was very temped to grab a brick, but decided I would honor them by buying more tacos.

Man. This stuff is very addicting. It is just amazing the sights one can see walking. The smells, the people… I have been driving in this area for 10 years (and went to school here in the 80′s) and it is just eye openning when on foot.

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.