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Installing and configuring PHP / MySQL with IIS

Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2014 8:26 pm
by PHPHelpNeeded
my question is main with IIS.

I have not PHP background here, but as far as installing php in IIS, I used WEB PLATFORM INSTALLER, when I installed php the installer also installed IIS.

In the past I tried very hard using other web servers like, apache, apache tomcat, zend server, and wamp...those web servers are not straight forward.

Anyway, with IIS, I did get my site to run from localhost and from any computer in an outside network. (Long story, so I will keep that for another time).

I have question, which I don't know where exactly in this forum I need to go to, to ask the question.

Just bare with me, and please let me know where to go.

Part of the way of how I got my site running is by creating a Virtual Directory in IIS in the Default Site.

So my localhost address would look like this: http://localhost/VirtualDirectory/index.php since I don't know how to setup IIS to run the site from http://localhost without using a virtual directory.

How do I setup my IIS root directory to start at my localhost addresss without creating a virtual directory to point at the directory where my site is located?

Any help will be appreciated.

Moderators, If you know which forum I should post this, please let me know, or move my post to that forum.

Thank you.