I’ve been working on and off on getting php, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin working on the web server at work since I migrated our webs to IIS 6 on Windows Server 2003 (I’d link these, but what’s the point?). I finally got the three teaming with IIS more or less successfully in the past week. I’ve been able to secure phpMyAdmin from general users, both with NT authentication for the folder in which phpMyAdmin is found, as well as cookie/MySQL authentication for the site itself. I’ve eliminated the root user, opting for an alternate administrative account instead.
Now I’m in the process of learning more about MySQL and phpMyAdmin, all the while creating several databases for various tasks, from informative and dynamic web pages to an online election for a video competition. My hope is to get the latter up and running by the end of the month, and then port over all of the Access/ASP (probably not the cleanest VBScript, at that) I programmed in the past two and a half years to MySQL and php. After that change, I’m hoping to get a good chunk of our site web standards compliant and accessible to those with special needs.
I know it’s going to be a hell of a lot of work, but it’s something I’m mostly enjoying (exporting Access databases to a format importable by MySQL - or making ASP/PHP pages that do the copying for me - is not all that fun). Wish me luck!
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