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Running Linux Simultaneously With Windows Home Server

The Windows Home Server community continue to push the boundaries of what can be done on WHS environments. One of community, Pedro Innecco has recently published an article on his blog about running Linux on a Windows Home Server simultaneously. Find out how to do it yourself.

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How-To: Install phpMyAdmin on your Windows Home Server

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.

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How to…..Install an External Hard Drive on Windows Home Server

Spring is here in the UK, the sun is shining and green stuff has started to sprout all over the place in a burst of new activity. Now seems the right time to spring into action myself and add some extra storage to my WHS. I have been keeping a wary eye on my server storage for some time and it’s got to the stage where I need to do something about it.

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

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!

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How-To: Install MediaWiki on Windows Home Server

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 [...]

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How-To: Install WordPress on Windows Home Server

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 [...]

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Turn Your USB Flash Drive into a Windows Install Disk

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 [...]

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Routers That Successfully Auto-Configure with Windows Home Server

Over on the WGS Forums, we’re compiling a master list of Routers that auto-configure with Windows Home Server using uPnP. You’ll probably know that Windows Home Server is meant to be able to configure remote access for your router if it supports uPnP, but in fact, this only seems to work with some routers. If you’re having [...]

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Build a Home Server for Just $400

One of the criticisms I hear a lot regarding Windows Home Server is that its an expensive option compared to a Linux-based NAS box. However, if you select the right components, and hunt around for deals, you can build a Windows Home Server machine much more cheaply than buying one off the shelf. I bumped into Donavon [...]

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

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 [...]

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