Hi folks,
I thought I’d pass along a few things about setting up Joomla that I’ve learned (the hard way) this week. These may or may not be obvious things to all the pros reading this but I’m going to share them anyway.
1)  When installing PHP, only add the extensions that you need (e.g. mySQL). A blanket install of all of the available extensions seemed to be the culprit behind the CGI error I was getting.
2)Â Make sure that your user account has the following permissions in the \php\temp directory:Â Modify, Read\Execute, List Folder Contents, Read, Write (basically everything except full control).
No doubt there’s much more for me to learn on this topic so I’ll probably revisit it at a later date.
Valete
