A tongue lashing? Really? While I find that a little humorous, I don’t share your perspective. As just one individual among many here who has installed and configured these applications individually and in pre-packaged “stack” form on a wide variety of platforms more times than I can remember, I simply responded in context based on the level of knowledge you appear to present in your own comments.
As you already know, IIS and Apache are both web servers. I think in most cases, I can’t remember many occasions to find both running on the same machine for the purpose of serving documents to the web – for the obvious reasons – I’m sure there are exceptions. Perhaps Dreamweaver works with Apache as well? That might be something worth exploring.
I think it’s not unusual to find that pre-packaged “WAMP” or “stack” installers are intended to provide a user with a working development environment on a machine that is not meant to be exposed to the web. I also think it’s very easy for serious issues to arise when people assume that they can simply one-click install something like WAMP on their Windows XP/Vista/Whatever, desktop computer, set up a site and expose it to the web without really understanding what they are doing.
Which leads me back to my original statement: I still think you are doing yourself a huge disservice by not pursuing, properly installing, and understanding the relationship between the individual apps and how they interact. The fact that you more than implied that you had already done that, led me to believe you had a little knowledge about what you were doing. That’s all.
for some of us this is not the be-all and end-all, this being a WordPress forum. I’m anxious to get this thing set up so as to establish a website of which I am the principal editor.
I happen to agree with you completely. Teaching people how to install, properly configure and secure the server side applications required to run WordPress is substantially beyond the scope of this venue… which is, as you know, a WordPress Forum. Not a forum on how to build a server. But you’ll still find lots of good information on doing just that.
If you get some time, do some light reading in the wamp documentation, as well as maybe Dreamweaver interoperability (although I’m not sure how serious an issue it will actually be when working locally with no ftp transfers to be concerned with) – and also the Apache documentation. That might place a lot of context on issues you are going to encounter further down the line. ie… why your permalinks won’t work, why your domain won’t resolve to your localhost address, configuring name based virtual hosts, etc.. Lots of good stuff to be found.
My sympathies that you mistook my comments for a “tongue lashing”. Certainly not what I intended. Best of luck to you, and hope to see your site on the web soon!!! Take care.
Cj.
