I have noticed Joomla is becoming a requirement listed on job postings. I have checked it out and it doesn't look that hard. I haven't downloaded it as yet for a test drive. Will it run on Win 2K running IIS or do I need to set up a Linux box for this. If you could share some knowledge on this I would appreciate it.

It is a PHP based CMS using a MYSQL database for storage. As long as you have those two capabilities you can run it on anything you want. I'm a developer by trade and I usually run it on Linux servers, but I have used it on a Microsoft one as well.

Good luck my friend.

I second cbchdude, you shouldn't have any problems running this on a Windows PHP MySQL stack.

You'll find it a lot easier to run it under Apache.

Apache will run happily on Windows and you'll be able to take advantage of extra functionality such as re-writing URLs.

Running Apache on Windows is typically called a WAMP stack, and you can find more out here: http://www.wampserver.com/en/


Ta,

Chris.

My main pc is set up with Win 2k and IIS.
I do have a couple of older Win boxes collecting dust. I just might set one up with Linux and try it on both. I haven't worked with Linux since Redhat 6.0, might be fun.

Heck ya! Get that LAMP box set. Linux has come a LOOOONG way. Dont know about using Red Hat though, try out Ubuntu. If you really want to learn how to operate in linux though, check out Gentoo. I guarantee you that would be an adventure.

OK now I've cleared the board, dug out Uncle Festus and ready to set up a LAMP box. Festus is a P233MMX w/ 64MB ram and a 6Gb drive. I am leaning towards gentoo and slackware but am also wondering if I should use one of the earlier versions on Linux I have (RH 6.0 era) I don't really need a lot of XDesktop and want to make sure I can run Apache, MYSQL, and PHP. Any input on this?

I think you would probably be best going with Debian.

Download the net install, boot from the CD and tell it you want a web server.

Once your started you can play with virtual hosting, MySQL permissions and all sorts.

Please do let me know how you get on!

Ta,

Chris.

OK so Uncle F and I have been having quite a time for sure. To be short one dead monitor, two dead CDRoms, two dead floppy drives, and one stick of ram up in smoke. I think dust had something to do with it. I took it completely apart, deep cleaned everything, rebuilt, added more ram and loaded DOS to give it a run.
I settled on Slackware 10.0 because the P233 is architecture 5. I stripped the DOS off and did a clean install so it is now a Linux box. Got the mail server running and sent mail out so it sees the network and internet so far. Apache and MYSQL db loaded with the install, we will see how that goes. PHP is on a cd ready to install after all that. Then I'll get back to the original topic here of loading Joomla and having a run at it.
Uncle F has been renamed Uncle Fester (for the LAMP Box) I found a photo of Fester doing his light bulb trick and I plan to use it somewhere on the server (maybe the home page) I have a client that wants to set up a fairly complex site so Joomla may be a good tool for that site. Will let you know how it all goes (if Uncle F doesn't decide to smoke something else on me).