[sonnygahir]

Hi, I’m attempting to install bbpress on Windows Server 2003 Ent SP2, IIS6, MySQL 5.1.34 community, PHP 5.2.9-2:

I have followed this guide to installing & configuring PHP: http://www.peterguy.com/php/install_IIS6.html

Step 1 – bb-config.php succeeds

Step 2 – skipping wordpress integration as don’t have this installed

On clicking Goto Step 3, the installation doesn’t get anywhere and the browser returns:

“Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage

Most likely causes:

You are not connected to the Internet.

The website is encountering problems.

There might be a typing error in the address. “

Any help please?

[chrishajer]

What is the URL that’s being displayed? Can you paste the link here?

[sonnygahir]

IIS is configured for several websites, each with it’s own ip address allocated. The URL I’m using to configure bbpress is http://newintranet.savethechildren.org.uk/forums/bb-admin/install.php

The ‘newintranet’ website is allocated ip address 10.1.10.49

The mysql settings in the bb-config file is as follows:

define(‘BBDB_NAME’, ‘bbpress’);

define(‘BBDB_USER’, ‘Forum’);

// the user Forum has been granted all privileges to the bbpress db

define(‘BBDB_PASSWORD’, ‘Forum’);

define(‘BBDB_HOST’, ‘localhost’);

// mysql is installed on the same IIS server listening on ip 10.1.10.53 standard port 3306

define(‘BBDB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

define(‘BBDB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8_general_ci’);

[sonnygahir]

The physical directory structure is as follows:

Directory of InetpubNewwwwrootforums

20/07/2009 10:59 <DIR> .

20/07/2009 10:59 <DIR> ..

19/07/2009 15:14 <DIR> bb-admin

19/07/2009 12:32 <DIR> bb-cache

19/07/2009 12:32 <DIR> bb-plugins

19/07/2009 12:32 <DIR> bb-includes

19/07/2009 12:32 <DIR> bb-images

19/07/2009 12:32 <DIR> bb-templates

20/07/2009 13:17 1,691 bb-config.php

05/03/2008 04:32 816 bb-load.php

12/02/2009 00:21 1,037 bb-login.php

24/04/2008 19:06 1,673 bb-config-sample.php

23/04/2008 11:29 1,647 bb-post.php

30/12/2008 23:14 445 bb-reset-password.php

26/08/2008 20:15 13,433 bb-settings.php

12/02/2009 00:21 822 bb-edit.php

26/02/2007 22:48 651 edit.php

12/02/2009 00:21 1,076 favorites.php

22/01/2007 08:40 449 forum.php

22/01/2007 08:40 450 index.php

03/01/2008 00:57 17,986 license.txt

12/02/2009 00:21 308 profile-base.php

17/12/2008 07:57 4,782 profile-edit.php

15/03/2008 02:40 851 profile.php

03/01/2008 00:57 855 readme.txt

05/03/2008 04:32 1,623 register.php

25/04/2008 14:09 4,349 rss.php

29/01/2008 20:11 1,402 search.php

05/03/2008 04:32 238 statistics.php

12/02/2009 00:21 574 tag-add.php

12/03/2008 07:46 661 tag-remove.php

22/01/2007 08:40 433 tags.php

19/07/2009 15:46 3,293 testdb.php

03/01/2008 00:57 1,312 topic.php

03/01/2008 00:57 756 view.php

27 File(s) 63,613 bytes

[sonnygahir]

I found this site, very useful for anyone trying to install/configure php on windows server: http://www.iisadmin.co.uk/?p=4

Following the above article, and related mysql & wordpress articles, all now works.