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Drashna - who has written 6 posts on We Got Served.

Hi! I'm a computer nerd who enjoys tinkering, testing out new things, and helping others. I discovered We Got Served in Feb 2008 and have quickly made quite a presence in a short time. I may not be super quick to posting new stuff, but I try to be super quick responding to problems!

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How-To: Install phpMyAdmin on your Windows Home Server

Monday, May 19, 2008

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So far, we've shown you how to install php on your webserver, and how to install a number of great software packages for your website. But what we haven't done yet is show you how to easily manage your databases for your websites. Managing your database includes creating new databases, tables, entries. Or even deleting or editing them. phpMyAdmin gives a much nicer and easier to used interface for interacting with MySQL than a command line.

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

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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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!

How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

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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 [...]

How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

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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 [...]

Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

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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 [...]

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

Monday, April 21, 2008

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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 [...]