Anders Heie

Sometimes the best things in life ARE free… Free Font Manager. Wohoo.

So, my first iPad application is pending review. Learning a mac, and Object-C, and iOS took several weeks, and I just scratched the surface. More on this later.

We’re moving our KaDonk corporate web pages to a new server with Joomla, and so these are the steps it takes to get Joomla running on IIS7, with a Windows 2008 server:

• Using Windows 2008,  IIS7, php 5.3.2, Visual C redistributable package, and Joomla v1.5
• Download latest phh windows installer non-thread safe, from php.net. Make sure to check for pre-requisites as needed on the download page.
  • Select to install for IIS FAstCgi
    • If fastCGI is not active, PHP will prompt you to turn it on. It will provide instructions on how to do that, follow them !
  • Using version 5.3.2
    • This version has a bug, in that when windows has a hosts file setup to redirect ::1 to localhost, then php localhost cannot be found.
      http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=45150
      The solution is to remove the ::1 localhost redirection from the windows\drivers\etc\hosts.txt file. This redirection is for IPv6 routing..
  • php also requires the visual C++ redistributable package, so we got V9 from here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bd2a6171-e2d6-4230-b809-9a8d7548c1b6&displaylang=en
    • This is needed to include some 64 bit libraries. It may not be required for 32 bit installations. Check your php manual.
  • More info on php on Windows: http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/10/09/IIS-FastCGI-and-PHP_3A00_-What-you-absolutely-need-to-know-to-host-PHP-applications-on-IIS-6-and-IIS-7.aspx
• Download MySQL latest: http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mirror.php?id=387773
  • Optional: I recommend you install SQLYog, simply because it’s an awesome front-end for MySQL.
  • Create new Joomla user for MySQL. Don’t use root, it’s just begging to get you into trouble someday.
  • Create your Joomla databse, and make sure your joomla user has sufficient rights to use it and create stuff in that database. The name will be used when you first run Joomla.
• Downloaded and installed the IIS7 URL rewrite module from Microsoft
  • http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/460/using-the-url-rewrite-module/
• Finally go to you website (It IS active in IIS, right?), and go through the Joomla setup.
  • If ‘localhost’ doesn’t work, your PHP hosts are not configured. Use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost
  • Or see above on how to fix the localhost problem.

Despite a press release from Donnashi Enterprises, Inc, that they protect consumers and block out social security numbers, the fact is that they do not. Having the benefit of being self employed, I just got a letter from Donnashi asking me to verify my own employment in my company. The letter has my full social security number, not blacked out. I did not previously receive a call asking for verification either.

Donnashi, practice what you preach.

Here is their press release: http://www.fraudblogger.com/DonnashiIDProtection053106.asp

They told me they have changed their policy since the press release, but I guess they didn’t send out a new press release to announce this backlapse to less-secure practices. I find it a bit sad when companies behaves this way, since in todays world there is a real risk of identity theft.