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Joe
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ODBC Driver Problems!

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I have been messing around and learning new things on a windows computer and I decided to open a private IIS server with php and mysql integration. I have managed to get the php and the IIS working great but when I came to the mySQL I started to struggle. When Installed mysql and the ODBC driver I got errors saying unable to connect to server on blah blah, when I hit the test button which was recommended when installing the ODBC driver. Its pretty hard to explain this but can anyone tell me any online references or whatever to get me through this ODBC installation.


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I'm not sure what your problems are with IIS but i'd recommend using apache as the webserver. It would probable be less painful to get apache up and running than spend hours beating IIS with a hammer :o
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Yes thats true and my whole personal website is run from apache but as I said I am experimenting with new things. IIS is in my opinion very unsafe but I would like to learn how I can patch IIS problems etc... and learn how the webserver actually functions.

Most of my time is spent using RedHat 9 shrike but I have a dual boot system and I think it would be great if I could learn the aspects of both OS's


I have way to much time on my hands these days, lol ;)
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IIS is often unsafe because the default settings are silly, and most admins are idiots about setting them up "right." I have seen several IIS servers which are fairly secure, but it takes time.. Out-of-the-box, Apache and most of the other *nix based servers are far more secure.
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