install modx on XP and IIS ....HELP

Yes I know that this topics be alredy on discussion but I can do anything ...
I try to describe what I did ...

I successfully install PHP 5.2.1, MYSQL 5 following the instruction that awardle give in topic
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,14486.msg94458.html#msg94458

after that I want to install MODX... I create new folder under c:\inetpub and named modxTest after that I crete new virtual directory on IIS and point to this new folder.
In virtual directory properties I set read and write and execute permissions.

After that I go to http://localhost/modxtest and get page
".....
MODx is not currently installed or the configuration file cannot be found.
Do you want to install now? ....."

but when I go to page http://localhost/modxtest/install ... my page is do nothing ...it seems to me that the page continuously looping or try to do something but without any successes .... so I don’t get first page n install proces .... What I do wrong ....

I think some privilege have to be set but I don’t know which.... I try to do like awardle told in his help but without any successes ...
I have other site that use Php and its work fine ...


HELP

I install MODX under wamp but I need do this on IIS :’(

OK ...I found the problem for the first step .... session folder under PHP installation don’t have write permission :-(

I downloaded modx-2.0.3-pl.zip and extracted it to my wwwroot folder hosted by IIS 5.1 on XP. However when I browse to the setup folder containing the extracted Modx files the installation doesn’t start. What happens is that the browser tries to download OSvrgYUT.part

Any help?

Quote from: jadietrich at Oct 13, 2010, 11:32 AM

I downloaded modx-2.0.3-pl.zip and extracted it to my wwwroot folder hosted by IIS 5.1 on XP. However when I browse to the setup folder containing the extracted Modx files the installation doesn’t start. What happens is that the browser tries to download OSvrgYUT.part

I’m not sure if it will successfully run on IIS that old. Do other PHP/MySQL applications run on that server? Revo requires a modern stack including PHP 5.2 and above.

Should I try an older version of Modx? I think that IIS 5.1 is the best I can get on xp, but if you know of a later version that I can use let me know.

Thanks!

I managed to use Microsoft Web Platform Installer, which says it successfully installed Modx with IIS 7.0 extensions and MYSQL 5.1 However when I point my browser to localhost/modx it (Firefox) tries to download a file, and IE just displays the contents of the index.php file.

Any more help?

It sounds like it’s not configured to run PHP at all.

Yes it ends up you were correct. I thought that the Microsoft Web Platform Installer had actually installed php, but apparently I was mistaken. Once I copied over the unzipped php files I had to go into IIS and manually add the .php extension and driver.

Now I actually get the Modx installation page! On to database configuration...Thanks for the help.