« Missing Teenager Natalee Holloway was murdered in Aruba | Main | 7-11 Employee fired for preventing robbery »
June 11, 2005
Install Movable Type and MySQL under XP with IIS
Movable Type is a web log (blog) software package from the company Six Apart that you can download for free. It can work with multiple databases, but I set mine up with the free, but fairly robust MySQL database with Perl scripts and IIS. It's somewhat difficult setting it up for Windows XP Pro and IIS though, as most true bit-heads would set up their shop using LAMP (Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL, and Perl). But, my theory is:
1) I'm already am running Windows XP Pro, and it's working fine for me (if it ain't broke don't fix it) and
2) Internet Information Services(IIS) is shipped with XP Pro, so it's basically free (no additional cost, anyway)
So, instead of using LAMP, I guess I'm using WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL, and Perl). Here's the notes I made when I installed IIS under Windows XP Pro last year. Then, after IIS is working, here are the notes I compiled from installing the Movable Type blog software and MySQL on a system running Windows XP, IIS, and Perl.
Posted by Peenie Wallie on June 11, 2005 at 11:44 AM
Comments