Mission accomplished.As noted in part 2, changing the path where tables are stored causes a failure. This is probably a Vista permission thing, which I will dig into deeper when I start building stuff on my machine where backing up the files is important again (it isn’t, usually).
The only other comment on the great instructions from thesitewizard.com is in the Modifying Your PHP Configuration to Allow Your PHP Scripts to Use MySQL section, he leaves out the tip found in many PHP fourms of placing the php.ini file in the windows directory. For some reason I remebered doing this from my installation a year ago and didn’t spend hours trying to find the fix I failed to blog or bookmark at that time.
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