$ for helping install WP on IIS6

jlivingston
(@jlivingston)

21 years, 1 month ago

I’ve tried to install WP 1.5 on my dedicated server for the past couple of days and need some help. Currenlty I have IIS 6, MySQL 4.1.10, PHP 4.3.10 and phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-pl3 installed.

When logging on to create a db through phpMyAdmin I see the following error (I’m not sure if this has anything to do with it):

“The mbstring PHP extension was not found and you seem to be using multibyte charset. Without mbstring extension phpMyAdmin is unable to split strings correctly and it may result in unexpected results.”

After creating the db in phpMyAdmin I then install WP. When installing WP I get a long error (see http://tinyurl.com/4qmzh). At the bottom of the error I can still go through the steps but when WP is up and running it is terribly slow (compared to another WP install I have over at dreamhost).

I need someone with experience who has installed WP 1.5 with IIS 6 and will be willing to pay for your help. If interested please email me at golfer18 [at] bellsouth.net.

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moshu
(@moshu)

21 years, 1 month ago

I don’t know if it is a similar problem – but definitely describes a way to go about installing on IIS
http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=29256#post-164667

skeltoac
(@skeltoac)

21 years, 1 month ago

WordPress database error: [Table ‘wpmartin.wp_options’ doesn’t exist]
SELECT option_value FROM wp_options WHERE option_name = ‘permalink_structure’

It looks like WP is looking for a database named “wpmartin” and you left the default table prefix of “wp_”.

Use the MySQL command line interface to debug this:
show databases; to see if wpmartin is in the list.
create database wpmartin; if it’s missing.
Then try install.php again.

rustindy
(@rustindy)

21 years, 1 month ago

Your main problem is probably two-fold.

First, PHP4.x does not like MySQL 4.1’s authentication, so it will not work unless you put MySQL 4.1 into authentication compatibility mode or or upgrade to PHP5.

Second, I’m not entirely sure that PHP4.x is 100% compatible with IIS6 on Windows 2003 – I remember reading something about that but I don’t remember quite what. Again, consider moving to PHP5 unless you actually require 4.3 for something.

ali-butt
(@ali-butt)

21 years, 1 month ago

Hi,
We have a very similar set up.
I am running windows 2003 IIS6 / php / mysql and mysqladmin.

i recently upgraded to 1.5 from 1.2 and i was so pleased that it went so smoothly !.

When i did the original installation (in fact anything that requires a mysql database), i just log in to the server, go to
c:\mysql\bin
type mysql.exe
and then just create the database with
create database wordpress;

Thats all, then update the relavent files to say that the database to install WP is called wordpress ….

That should be it.

I am currently running php 4.x.x ….

Thread Starter jlivingston
(@jlivingston)

21 years, 1 month ago

Thanks for all of your comments. I will look into this and let you know if I was able to resolve this.

Thread Starter jlivingston
(@jlivingston)

21 years, 1 month ago

I’m still a stuck wannabe WordPress 1.5 user – If you have experience with installing WP 1.5 on Windows 2003 server, MySQL 4.x.x and IIS 6 email me your phone number (golfer18 [at] bellsouth.net) and I will give you a call. At this point I rather pay because I’m at a dead end.