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I have entered an excerpt. It changes to the link to plain text. I’m not trying to link to the orginial post, but a separate pdf doc in the media library or a url.

I’m still stuck after losing a week and lots of hours trying to do something that was said to be straight forward. Yes, I am frustrated.

I’m running windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

I used Web Platform Installer 2.0 to set up my IIS environment. It says all the stuff is there and I can run the “Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager” from the start menu

I have php running and can open “localhost/phpinfo.php” from my broswer.

MySQL appears to be running OK. Using task manager I can see the MySQL service is running.

When using WPI to load WordPress, I get the following message:

“We’re Sorry. The following products have failed to install.
WordPress This product did not install successfully: The database ‘wordpress’ could not be created. Acess denied for user “root@localhost’ (using password: YES)”

I have no idea where the YES password is coming from.

I downloaded the wordpress-3.0-IIS.zip file and unzipped it into the C:\inetpub\wwwroot\wordpress dircetory. When I try running wp-admin/install.php, Dreamweaver is opened and the following message is displayed: Error: PHP is not running.

I think the wordpress db and db user has not been correctly created.

Please help me sort this stuff out.

Thanks — Dave

Mike,

How do you activate MsSQL?

Thanks — Dave

esmi,

Thanks for the help, but I’m still stuck. I tried following the instructions on the Codex page but I wasn’t getting all the responses. I’m running windows 7 Pro 64-bit.

I think/hope the problem is something simple like stuff in the wrong directory or a parameter not set correctly.

I was Web Platform Installer 2.0 to set up my IIS environment. It looks OK, but I still get the php not running message.

Thanks — Dave

I’m having the same problem.

I’m trying to run WordPres on my laptop in order to develop a CMS site.

Thanks for the help — Dave