By _-dave-_ on

Hi

I am having a nightmare installing Drupal on Windows. I have been running it on Linux for a year or so with no problems but have to run it on Windows for current project. I have installed a WAMP stack from SpikeSource which is working fine but when I unpack drupal into my htdocs folder, install the database and configure settings.php then try to access the site I get the following message:


The connection was reset
The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

I have also upped the memory limit in php to 128M as this has caused me trouble in the past (WSOD).

Very bizarre. I have tried adding a plain index.html file to the root drupal folder and this works fine. I have also added a test.php file and this also works fine. Only seem to get the error when actually running Drupal. No help from apache logs on debug mode either!

Any ideas greatly welcome!

Thanks
Dave

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Comments

peteThomas’s picture

peteThomas commented

Have you tried using drupal-on-a-stick?

http://www.ratatosk.net/software/onastick/

pcs305’s picture

pcs305 commented

Now this is handy!
Thanks Pete

_-dave-_’s picture

_-dave-_ commented

Very interesting...

I have it working through this (but not "on a stick"). Even have my highly customised version working on it and looks like a breeze to add phpmyadmin!

Still would like to know what caused the original problem but at least I can code while I ponder...

Thanks a lot!

Dave