I just installed wpilauncher for the first time. After going through the tedious task of providing user names and passwords for a platoons worth of people it informed me that the product had been previously installed. I found this a novel means of getting software is installed. This Hard Drive has only...

Hi; There are two ways to go about troubleshooting this install failure. There are several log files, which are challenging to find, very large, and difficult to read. One installer calls another, and another, and so it gets rather complicated. If you're new to this, digging up the installer logs...

I am installing the Acquia Drupal stack via the MS Web Platform Installer. I'm working via Remote Desktop on a Windows 2003 Server running IIS 6. It already had PHP 5.25 and MySQL 5.0 AND PHPMyAdmin install successfully. I ran the installer, and got a slew of programs that I did not want, and those...

We are using Windows Server 2008 Web Edition 64 bits with IIS7.0 using Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta to download Acquia Drupal from microsoft Web Gallery. During installation, we have encountered the following error: We're sorry. The following components have failed to install. 1. MySQL...

I'm writing a WebPI package that has a method of installation that can be scripted. Can I run this post-install PHP script automatically (it generates the security keys, makes web.config files, etc. though it does not make a database) after the components are installed from WebPI?

Components Umbraco, DotNetNuke and Gallery all failed to install for basically the same reason - could not create database due to login failure. BTW, I was never prompted for the passwords for these databases (although I defined them in the WPI configuration). I am on Vista Home Premium SP1 Any ideas...