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If you try to edit the global configuration in Joomla and receive the message
An Error has occurred! Unable to open configuration.php file to write!
On your serverset the permissions for the configuration.php in the root of the website to enable modify permissions to the Internet guest account.

You may also get an error uploading images
Warning: Failed to [...]

This covers setting up a Joomla website on a Windows IIS server
You will need to have MySQL installed on the server already.
If you do not, use XAMPP to load and configure the packages required from  from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
See the tutorial below on setting up an IIS website

Download the latest version from http://www.joomla.org/download.html
Unzip it to the website [...]

If you have installed Joomla, removed the installation folder then attempt to go to the website directly and you receive the error:
No configuration file found and no installation code available. Exiting…
Go to the root of the website and rename the file configuration.php-dist to configuration.php

Install a new theme
You can browse free themes at  http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/
Find a suitable theme and download it as a zip file to your server. Login to wordpress as an admin user, go to the appearance section and select themes. Select the upload tab, browse the zip file and press Install Now to install the theme. Then activate [...]

A pre-note on installing WordPress: Read the official installation instructions first! By following the “5 minute install” instructions verbatim, I’ve never had a problem! Problems only happen when you don’t follow the instructions!
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress
Symptom: You’re installing Wordpress and you’re getting database connection errors even though you have the settings correct.
Fix: It’s possible that you have the [...]

Download wordpress http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
Extract the zip file to a suitable folder where you want the website to run from e.g. d:\data\intranet
Setup an IIS website and point to this folder. See video for instructions on setting up an IIS website

Rename the wp-config-sample.php file to wp-config.php
You will then have a wordpress web folder that looks like this…

Open up [...]

To setup the MySQL database you can either use the MySQL command prompt or the GUI phpMyAdmin which is a WYSYWIG web based control for configuring MySQL databases. It will take longer to setup the GUI however it is a useful tool should you ever need to modify you MySQL databases directly (which is likely if something [...]

Here are the start to finish instructions for setting up your wordpress blog site on a Windows IIS server. This was done on a windows 2003 server. In this instance I am setting up wordpress to use as an intranet site.
Part 1 covers install of:

MySQL
FastCGI Extension
PHP

Download MySQL and install. You will need to rename the .man [...]

In migrating a website which used an access MDB ODBC driver to link to a database from a Windows 2003 server to a Windows 2008 64-bit operating system, I found when I went to create the ODBC driver for the database,
ODBC Driver from Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Data Source (ODBC), I could only [...]