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Well that didn’t last very long now did it? The drive went spiraling out of control last night and got the server into such a state I had no choice but to pull the drive. The cloned drive was pulled from the bench and put into action. Since the server seemed to be running correctly after the reboot I didn’t swap out the drive since I wasn’t sure that was the problem.

I’m not taking any more chances and like a celebrity being kicked off the stage at the awards ceremony, the drive has been taken out and replaced. The swap took about 5 minutes but I have no idea how long the server was down when I finally found it. It was in quite the state of confusion so I just shut it down.

Once again, all is well for now. We’ll see if this drive can keep the server running without causing a scene. If this doesn’t work, I’m going to need an old priest and a young priest.

If your computer didn’t change over times correctly as mine didn’t, you need to download the DST update. The rules for Daylight Savings changed and Windows XP won’t update on March 11 as it should.

You can read the Microsoft article here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931836

You can download the update here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/f/a/afa62de4-b20d-44af-8548-c0e3b335f370/WindowsXP-KB931836-x86-ENU.exe

It only takes a second and then the time will adjust correctly.

I forgot to include a few things in regards to the PHP 5.0 install. Here is a good link with instructions on how to get PHP installed should you run into trouble. I did use the Windows Installer package that is available at www.php.net. The only real snag was I attempted to use the CGI files for PHP and found out that that the ISAPI filter was actually easier to use and install.

If you need help, let Peter Guy point you in the right direction. As I said I didn’t use all the steps, but it was worth checking to make sure the PHP DLL’s were loaded within IIS.

As for Wordpress, the only snag I hit, was to make sure I created the Wordpress database. It didn’t make it by default so I had to use the command:

create database Wordpress;

After that, everything went fine. And if you’re from the Windows world like I am, remember the default account is ROOT, not Administrator. I kept on typing in the wrong username and password and cursing MySql for not being the easy to use database tool that the Internet had lead me to believe, until the Mrs. (who is a real SQL DBA) told my to knock of my shenanigans and type in the right information.