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In a project we are doing for a client we needed (naturaly) to setup a development server equal to th clients setup. This included:

* IIS 5
* MySQL 5.x
* PHP 5.2
* Typo3 4.0.2

..along with a bunch of extra stuff such as ImageMagick and so forth.
Having used Typo3 4.x with PHP 5 and MySQL 5 versions for some month without any major problems I thought this would go about the same. Shame on me. To beginning I had problems getting PHP to act valid together with the IIS. This was solved in a simple but clever way found at php.net by first installing php using the automated install script, and then replacing everything with the contents of the php-zip to get a better base.

MySQL was fortunately already installed on the dev server.

So, I moved forth with the Typo3 setup. After some fiddeling with trying to use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick (which I gave up since I couldn’t find any info on how to wrap IM functions for GM under windows), I got a basic Typo3 setup done. But when I tried to add a default admin user, my problems continues. The setup tools reports a valid creation of the user, but nothing comes into my be_users table.. After som readings on the net I found this bug. It ended up in manually adding a BE user (exported it from another Typo3 installation). fixing the be_sessions.ses_data to allow null values made the user actually log in to the be as well! wow..

Anyway.. I’m on track again but I still can’t log in to the install tool as it only seems to reload back.. But hey.. most of those settings can be done manually in typo3conf/localconf.php so that’s not really a problem but still an irritating thing..