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

Thursday, May 8, 2008

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 [...]

Installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

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If you’re interested in running a website from your home server, you may have considered various options, including running PHP. But running PHP with IIS can be fraught with problems - or at least was, until WGS reader, Christopher Courtney, wrote the following guide to installing PHP for IIS on Windows Home Server. Over to [...]

FAQ: Windows Home Server and Port Forwarding

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

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Next up in the series of FAQs from the We Got Served forums is a common issue with router configuration. Windows Home Server has the ability to automatically configure many routers to permit access to your home server when away from home, using a technology called uPnP. Unfortunately, not all routers are compatible with uPnP and [...]

Add-In Review: Website Manager

Thursday, January 17, 2008

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Just bought a Windows Home Server? Managed to configure Remote Access? Now looking for a simple add-in that will show a link to your favourite web pages on the WHS home page? Then at first glance, Steve Van Horn’s Windows Home Server Website Manager appears to meet your needs. Following installation in the WHS Console a [...]

Change Your WHS Homepage Image With Whiist

Monday, December 24, 2007

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Whiist is a Windows Home Server Add-In by Andrew Grant that allows you to create and manage web content on your Windows Home Server - it won this year’s Code2Fame Add-In competition, and Andrew is continually updating the add-in to bring new features to the WHS Community. Version 0.8 was released yesterday, and comes with a [...]

Check Out Home Server Hacks

Friday, December 14, 2007

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Donavon West has set up a new blog called Home Server Hacks, which has kicked off with a series of walkthroughs to help you get the most out of your home server by digging down under the hood. Subjects covered so far include configuring your Apple router to work with WHS, upgrading the memory on [...]

Microsoft Windows Home Server Website Updated - Buy!

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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Further to this morning’s launch, Microsoft’s WHS website has been updated with a new section with links to purchasing Windows Home Server hardware via online stores and OEMs. There’s also links to the MS Forums, and some blog. Check it Out: Microsoft.com

New Blog - Windows Home Server User’s Guide

Sunday, September 16, 2007

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If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you’ll have read about Andrew Edney’s new book, Windows Home Server User’s Guide, which is released in October via Apress. Now that the book is complete, Andrew’s opened up a blog to support the book, which you can check out at http://usingwindowshomeserver.com Disclosure: At this point, I should [...]