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#25243 16-Aug-2008 10:14
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Hi all

I'm trying to install wordpress onto my whs machine by following the “How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server” @ http://www.wegotserved.co.uk/2008/05/06/how-to-install-wordpress-on-your-home-server/

Did everything it said to do minus 1 thing which I couldn’t read all the info as it contain how to set a username and password in mysl - (mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON wordpress.* to wpadmin@localhost IDENTIFIED BY 'wppa??????  Does anybody know the info for this


When I try to open  he following error message appear at the https://yourserver.homeserver.com/blog/


Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

Any help in getting this going would be great


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#157369 16-Aug-2008 10:17
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This message shows up when the default document for a directory doesn't exist, and the directory doesn't allow listing the contents.

If you try browsing a specific page does it work? If yes, then you have to check the IIS configuration and change the default document list to add the page that should be coming up first.

As for the database thing, I will pass to someone else...







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  #159607 25-Aug-2008 16:07
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Setting the default document in IIS to "index.php" should fix it for you.





 


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  #159610 25-Aug-2008 16:09
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As freitasm mentioned, you'll need to add the document type to the list of file extensions IIS looks for to display. By default, IIS doesn't display PHP documents - which is what every page is build around in WordPress.

I'm not too sure of the instructions for WHS as I've only dealt with WS2003 and earlier.



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  #159612 25-Aug-2008 16:13
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Windows Home Server is built on SBS 2003 and runs standard IIS 6.0. Anything for Windows Server related to IIS works just the same.




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  #159616 25-Aug-2008 16:28
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Have you installed PHP as well?

Have a look at this page and it will tell you how to add PHP to the default document type list, too.

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  #159714 25-Aug-2008 21:18
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Hi

I went though all the steps of the instrutction from the link, when I try to open http://serverrname/phpinfo.php and error message appear saying it the page cannot be found. An 404 error.  As you see from the screen dump I attact(I hope they work)  the info is correct


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  #159999 26-Aug-2008 22:02
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Hi

Follow the instruction.  When open the page it said dirrectory listed denined.  the virtual directory does not allow contain to be listed

if I open file:///C:/Inetpub/Blog/wp-admin/install.php below appear.  Don't know if this suppose to happeren as I can't fully understand it and don't know what info I'm suppose to enter into the 2 boxes also where are the database tables locate


.__('Already Installed').'

'.__('You appear to have already installed WordPress. To reinstall please clear your old database tables first.').'

');} switch($step) { case 0: case 1: // in case people are directly linking to this display_header(); ?>

ReadMe documentation at your leisure. Otherwise, just fill in the information below and you\'ll be on your way to using the most extendable and powerful personal publishing platform in the world.'), '../readme.html'); ?>



 

 

error) ) wp_die($wpdb->error->get_error_message()); display_header(); // Fill in the data we gathered $weblog_title = stripslashes($_POST['weblog_title']); $admin_email = stripslashes($_POST['admin_email']); $public = (int) $_POST['blog_public']; // check e-mail address if (empty($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die('

'.__("ERROR: you must provide an e-mail address.").'

'); } else if (!is_email($admin_email)) { // TODO: poka-yoke die('

'.__('ERROR: that isn’t a valid e-mail address. E-mail addresses look like: username@example.com').'

'); } $wpdb->show_errors(); $result = wp_install($weblog_title, 'admin', $admin_email, $public); extract($result, EXTR_SKIP); ?>

admin


'.__('Note that password carefully! It is a random password that was generated just for you.').''; ?>
var t = document.getElementById('weblog_title'); if (t){ t.focus(); }

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