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How To: Install Forum Software phpBB 3 on Windows Home Server

By on May 8, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

This week, we have shown you how to install your own blog on Windows Home Server, powered by Wordpress, as well as your own wiki, both of which you can do once you have installed PHP for IIS. Now we are going to to show you how to install your very own personal forum, so you can go and create your own Windows Home Server community that kicks We Got Served’s ass!

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How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

By on May 7, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

A while ago, we showed you how to install PHP on your Home Server, and recently we showed you how to install WordPress on your server.  Now, we are going show you how to install MediaWiki onto your server for you very own Wiki pages.  MediaWiki is the software that powers sites like Wikipedia and [...]

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How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

By on May 6, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

A while back, we showed you how to Install PHP on IIS on your Windows Home Server.  Thanks to feedback from the community, it has been cleaned up, cleared up, and refined – the section on how to install MySQL has been expanded to include details and brief descriptions.  What we didn’t show you in [...]

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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

By on April 30, 2008 in Hardware, How to Guides, Under the Hood, Windows, Windows Home Server

Many of us more technically-inclined poeple have probably built our own Windows Home Server systems by now or are considering it.  But one of the more tricky problems with building your own Home Server is how to install it.  Sure there is picking up a spare DVD drive just to install Home Server intially, but most [...]

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How-To: Create a Website with Whiist and ASP.NET

By on April 21, 2008 in How to Guides, Windows Home Server, Windows Home Server v1

One of the lesser recognized built in features of the Windows Home Server is that it does have a web server integrated into it.  I’m sure many of you have used the Remote Access website, but how many of of you have wondered what else could you do with it? We’ve shown you how to [...]

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