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I have followed your instruction, but when I try to open the http://localhost/index.php it just show a white page. I did just what you did. The only thing is that I have 2003 without servicepack2 and PHP 5.26. But that wont matter, or do it?

I tried that as well in the beginning over here on two servers that I am running. It gave me the same thing. What you can try and do as an alternative if it is just locally on your network. Trying calling up the page by the name of the computer and port which th we page is set up at. Or IP address. As an example over here on my main server I usually access it as Server2:80/index.php once I had completed the set up. if you need to set joomla up the first time around and I'm redoing my second server over here it would be Server2:80/installation/index.php. Since I have active directories running on my primary with DNS running and both my primary and secondary servers have static IP's on them. This is another way of accessing them locally on the network. Give it a try and see if this works. Take a look at the computer name of the server if you are not too sure of the name. It will help you out.

Compucore.

I followed the video completely twice and I cannot run the http://localhost/index.php. default.htm works fine. What can be wrong? FYI, also am using 5.2.6.

Newbie try using the name of the server that you are using for the website (I.E. http://Server2:80/index.php or http://<static IP Address like 192.168.0.105:80/index.php) This is what I had done with mine over here since I have them linked together through a router as a network over here. Plus I have access to all of my machine either via KVM or I use Real VNC connections to access the backside of the machine. And use my favorite browser to access the actual web page itself. Take a look at the name of the computer and on which domain the computer is on or workgroup that it is located at. If the workgroup or domain are not the same as where you are working on anoher computer it might not be reached in theory. But in practice you should be able to access it without the domain name or workgroup name to access the main page.

Regards,

Karl

thanks for the input, i tried all that. It acts like php isn't actually running on the server. I don't know if it makes a difference but I also have Coldfusion on that server.

I don't think so. But if you remember in the video where you had created that little test.php page where it calls the configuration of php. If that comes up without a problem then it should work. Make sure as well for Joomla 1.5.X that the configuration.php I think as well. that it is configured properly. With the information that you had entered in before hand. It might be that can be empty or something is not right with it. I remember in the series of the three there was 1.0.13 and there was a bug jump to 1.5.6 then updated to 1.5.7. I have everything working fine on a windows server 2003 enterprise edition. I am thinking of bringing it up to server 2008 from windows to see if there is a difference.

Karl

i created the test page with the 3 lines of code to bring up the PHP configuration. That is the file that I can't get to run at all. No php runs at all. I'm really stumped.

Okay what is the IP address of the machine that you have it set up on? And just reference it to the machine itself. And one suggestion here while I am at it here. Make sure that the IP address that the machine is using is static. When you do and IP config /all and it shows you the IP address on it. (FOr example mine is 192.168.0.105 for my Windows server 2003.) When I want to use that I simply put in the address bar in IE or firefox. http://192.168.0.105:80/ index.php Then it should load up. take a look to see if you can do that on your side. What kind of machine is it if I may ask to see what it looks like by the specs. I amy be able to help you here.

Karl

The ip address is 192.168.2.99. When i use http://192.168.2.99:80/index.php I still get page not found, but the page does exist in inetpub/wwwroot.

Just out of curiousity which version of Joomla did you try to install? I had tried to install 1.5.8 and had a heck of a time in trying to get that version and had lost 1.5.3 or .6 to install in then just do an update on that one. Then I had to revert back to 1.0.15 and worked like a charm since the configuration.php had to be rewritten to what I had it set up to. I know there was a version 1.5.X tutorial but with 1.5.7 and 1.5.8 do not work the same with the tutorial of 1.5.3 pr 1.5.6 with the tutorial.