If you have been struggling with the popular Joomla Content Management system running on Windows, this tutorial should help get you going in the right direction. After all. getting Joomla, Apache, PHP and MySQL all running smoothly and in harmony under Windows can be quite a challenge.

Many people that run Windows servers and want to use Joomla have a tough time deciding whether they should use IIS as their webserver, since they already have it, and it is designed as a part of their server, or if they should use Apache. There really isn't a simple answer, except to say that Joomla, PHP and MySQL will all play much more nicely with Apache than IIS. You can use IIS, of course, but you will find yourself running into problems over time that you would not experience with Apache as your web server. This will be especially true when you try to get Joomla to use Search Engine Friendly URLs while youa re running an IIS webserver. You can do it, but it will be a major hassle, while if you simply use Apache, it will all take minutes to accomplish.

In this video tutorial we start with a fresh Windows 2003 server and go through every step needed to get Joomla version 1.5 running on it with the pache webserver, rather than IIS. We install PHP and MySQ through the easy and full-featured XAMPP package, tweak the settings of the PHP.INI file, configure IIS to operate with PHP and MySQL, then finally download, install and test Joomla 1.5.

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This is genius
written by Sjiraff, May 29, 2008

Thanz alot for that tutorial. It's about the first time everything works out of the box - if you just follow this video; your webserver will be up in no time.
Thanx again - this really saved me some hours of searching the web and going through tons of documents.
SUPER

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you are too good to be true!!!
written by rene apc, February 21, 2008

Since january 2008 I found this web site, and this ace called michael is awsome, I mean about his job, I give all credit for this type of work, I wish I can hit the Lotto numbers and I'will donate a great amount of money to this web site producer, until them I will give all my "moral" support (words only), good luck and keep up the good deeds!!!!. rene apc. tampa florida .

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Awesome Tutorial
written by Jason Kornegay, February 20, 2008

Thanks for your help I couldnt hardly find writen documentation on this subject and I stumble across this... wow thanks for your help.

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Excellent Tutorial
written by Chethan, February 07, 2008

I wonder what inspires you to put all this effort - to help us (whom you don't even know) God bless you !!!

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