Installed WordPress On Windows 2003 Server

Last night I was up until 2:00 AM installing WordPress on a Windows 2003 Server for http://www.caraccessories.com/wordpress. I ran into numerous technical problems because I tried to install the lastest versions of PHP and MySQL. Eventually I had to install PHP 4.4.2 to get the right MySQL support and MySQL 4.1.8 to work around the new password encryption. I also had to create a new database user, change its password to use an old style password, and give it permissions for the database. At first I tried to use the root user and changed its password to the old style of password but that caused all sorts of problems with my MySQL administration tools and forced me to reset the root password.

For PHP I had to add index.php to the default document list or you would get a directory cannot be browsed error.