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You should ahave got a trial key when you got the dvd at the event. You can run without a key, although it will ask to activate once a day, for 180 days.

Have a look at this thread http://serverforum.org/f13/windows-media-center-on-server-2008-a-11.html There are a couple links that should help you.

Re: I have IIS on server 2008 on and running ok, what roles do i need to turn on to p You'll need to set up DNS. If you have a dynamic IP you could use a dynamic DNS service like DynDNS to forward requests to your server.

Have you set up the script mappings for php extensions?

Yes, you'll have it in the webroot or you could just change the webroot to the stats directory using iis manager.

I've noticed that bug also although a little different. I have an external drive connected to 4 servers through a USB KVM switch. I use this drive to backup the servers. 3 servers are Windows 2003 and one is Windows 2008. Files copied from the Windows 2003 boxes are accessible to the other servers. When I copy files from Windows 2008 to the drive the files are accessible to all boxes while the KWM is set to the 2008 box. Once I switch to one of the other boxes the files disappear as if they never existed. If I switch back to the 2008 box the files reappear on all. The only work around is to move the files from 2008 to 2003 is to login with RDP and copy the files from the USB drive into another directory on the drive. I then can delete the original copies from the 2008 box. There were several quirks with USB drives connected to Vista in the early betas. I bugged 3 that I found and it seems this one made it into 2008.

Re: Forgot to add: Enabling Aero on 2008 - no experience index needed :) Great post and welcome to the site. Windows 2008 was tested side by side with Vista. Once Vista was released the core was fine tuned for server performance. I wouldn't be surprised if many people use Windows 2008 as a desktop OS. Of course Vista SP1 has fixed many of the quirks you mentioned.

IIS Manager > Default Documents. Add index.html to the list.

No. Only way they could get it is if they are admin on the server.

I've never used php.ini to store mysql user info and password. php.ini is not accessible uless you have php setup in the webroot so that should be secure in itself. If you plan on sharing the box with other users that have admin access, not a good idea, then it would be a good idea to encrypt it. I have never done it so I can't help with this.

I had a brain cramp. There is no way that I know of to open xls files via a web page. You have to have Microsoft Excel or some compatible viewer installed on the end users computer. If a user has Excel or Excel Viewer when they click a link to the xls file Excel will start on their computer so they can view the file. As far as I know there isn't any way to have it open on the server. I do know that there is an option in Excel to publish as webpage. Maybe that would be a better option.

Use IIS Manager. You can change/add script mappings using the Handler Mappings module within IIS manager.

Your welcome.

It has to be a problem with running in 64bit mode. Try stetting IIS to run in 32bit mode. The second link shows how to do that.

Maybe this page will help: Active Server Pages returns VBScript runtime error '800a01ad' Also it's possible you'll have to run the server in 32bit mode. This should help if that indeed is the problem. Written for Windows 2003, but should work with Windows 2008 and IIS7. Microsoft Corporation

I was going to suggest a recompile also.

After doing some searching it seems the program will not run on Windows 2008. Try to run it in windows 2003 compatibility mode.

Are you trying to run the application outside a virtual directory?

Try running this query: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'root'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'yourpasswor' WITH GRANT OPTION; Then after it runs without errors usfe this query to reload privileges table. FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

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Since mysql worked before the OS reload it is probably best you could do is remove everything and reinstall mysql. The mysql db holds the connection information and mysql access info. You should save any db you created and then after install copy them back.

You have to take ownership of the file. Right click and select security.

Is the mysql data dir set in my.ini? It could be the new install is not reading my.ini. It could also be NTFS permissions are wacked. Might want to stop the service and replace the mysql db with the one from the zip.

Glad I could help. Thanks.

Open IIS manager and then error pages. Right click the 500 error page and select Edit feature settings. Set it to send detailed error messages. The default is give detailed only for local requests.