In recent years, Microsoft has made more of an effort to support non-Microsoft technologies on the Windows platform.
One of those technologies that has gained widespread support in the Microsoft community is PHP.
Before the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, it was a rather tedious process to install and configure IIS to support PHP.
However, with the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, Microsoft has made the process of not only configuring and supporting IIS for hosting PHP very easy but also even installing Content Management Systems such as Drupal!
You can download and install Microsoft Web Platform Installer from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Drupal requires PHP (of course) as well as a database server such as MySQL or SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.
Even if you have a database server installed locally, if it is not a named instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, the Web Platform Installer will FORCE you to install a new instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.
Of course, after the initial prerequisites are installed on your system, the rest of the installation is basically following the steps in the wizard to install and setup your new Drupal Website.
One of those technologies that has gained widespread support in the Microsoft community is PHP.
Before the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, it was a rather tedious process to install and configure IIS to support PHP.
However, with the release of the Microsoft Web Platform Installer, Microsoft has made the process of not only configuring and supporting IIS for hosting PHP very easy but also even installing Content Management Systems such as Drupal!
You can download and install Microsoft Web Platform Installer from here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Drupal requires PHP (of course) as well as a database server such as MySQL or SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.
Even if you have a database server installed locally, if it is not a named instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express, the Web Platform Installer will FORCE you to install a new instance of SQL Server 2008 R2 Express.
Of course, after the initial prerequisites are installed on your system, the rest of the installation is basically following the steps in the wizard to install and setup your new Drupal Website.
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