Installing OSQA on Windows 2008 Server with IIS7

Hey there, we have people working on the documentation as we speak. But answering to your question, is possible to run osqa on any os that runs python and django which includes windows.

To install python on windows, you would be better using an installer file, you can get it from http://www.python.org/download/. Pick the latest release from version 2.x, don't use 3.x.

After installing python you must edit your PATH environment variable to point to the python install folder, usually something like c:\python26, and also the scripts folder, usually under c:\python26\scripts . This is not a requirement but it would make the next steps easier.

Then you need to download django http://www.djangoproject.com/, unpack it somewhere and then run python setup.py install.

After that, you have python and django installed. Hope it helps :-)

EDIT: Just noticed the IIS part of the question. There's a great tutorial here:

It is clear that many users will want to run on Windows servers, so we will try to make a point of figuring out and documenting what is needed to succeed with OSQA in a Windows hosting environment.
http://jira.osqa.net/browse/OSQA-94

there is step-by-step instalation OSQA to Windows 2008 R2 x64 in points. I'm just testing OSQA now. I like to make this notes more detailed in future. * TortoiseSVN http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/tortoisesvn/files/Application/1.6.8/TortoiseSVN-1.6.8.19260-win32-svn-1.6.11.msi/download * Python 2.6.5 http://www.python.org/download/ http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.6.5/python-2.6.5.msi * setuptools (EasyInstall) http://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#windows http://pypi.python.org/packages/2.6/s/setuptools/setuptools-0.6c11.win32-py2.6.exe#md5=1509752c3c2e64b5d0f9589aafe053dc * PyISAPIe 1.0.4 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyisapie/files/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyisapie/files/pyisapie/1.1.0-rc4/PyISAPIe-1.1.0-rc4-Py2.6.zip/download * - isapi-wsgi (it's working without it) - http://code.google.com/p/isapi-wsgi/ * Django http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoOnWindowsWithIISAndSQLServer python easy_install Django==1.1 * - django-mssql (i like to move in future from mysql to mssql. not tested yet) - http://code.google.com/p/django-mssql/source/checkout - svn checkout http://django-mssql.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ django-mssql-read-only * MySQL-python http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/files/ http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2019827/error-when-install-python-mysql-module-on-windows http://soemin.googlecode.com/files/MySQL-python-1.2.3c1.win32-py2.6.exe * OSQA svn checkout http://svn.osqa.net/svnroot/osqa/trunk * ElementTree http://effbot.org/downloads/ http://effbot.org/media/downloads/elementtree-1.2.6-20050316.win32.exe python setup.py install Markdown http://www.freewisdom.org/projects/python-markdown/Installation http://pypi.python.org/packages/any/M/Markdown/Markdown-2.0.win32.exe python setup.py install easy_install Markdown * html5lib http://pypi.python.org/pypi/html5lib/0.90 http://html5lib.googlecode.com/files/html5lib-0.90.zip html5lib-0.90>python setup.py install * south http://www.aeracode.org/releases/south/ http://www.aeracode.org/releases/south/south-0.7.tar.gz * sphinx http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads.html http://www.sphinxsearch.com/downloads/sphinx-0.9.9-win32.zip C:\Python26\sphinx-0.9.9-win32\bin\searchd --install --config C:\Python26\sphinx-0.9.9-win32\sphinx.conf --servicename SphinxSearch http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=1813 1. it could't find the config file ---> so i specified it with full path * django-sphinx http://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx/downloads http://github.com/dcramer/django-sphinx/zipball/2.0.0 * openID http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-openid/ http://openidenabled.com/files/python-openid/packages/python-openid-2.2.4.tar.gz easy_install python-openid * MySQL http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/ mysql-5.1.35-win32.msi create database osqa DEFAULT CHARACTER SET UTF8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci; grant all on osqa.* to 'osqa'@'localhost'; * Openid tables not created http://meta.osqa.net/question/147/openid-tables-not-created python manage.py syncdb --all python manage.py migrate --fake * - Python as Service (i like run OSQA like service in future) - http://agiletesting.blogspot.com/2005/09/running-python-script-as-windows.html - http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverMigration/thread/98a97aee-c62b-4683-94ab-3777899cf7de * C:\Python26\OSQA>python manage.py runserver osq.test-domain.com:8000 * http://osq.test-domain.com:8000 * I made sucessfully import of SE-Dump with OSQA-importer and Matthew Schmidt and Hernâni Cerqueira help

Hi all Sorry for the delay in replying : So to sum up : we would have to have Django, python and mysql installed on a windows box to go ahead and install OSQA ? ***To install python on windows, you would be better using an installer file, you can get it from http://www.python.org/download/. Pick the latest release from version 2.x, don't use 3.x. *** So if I have the above two and a MySQL, would that be it to run OSQA on my server ? Thanks PS : I am also willing to contribute to documenting this process as this is going to be very famous amongst small business using OSQA locally on there internal windows web servers for company Q&A.

**Update: They've now made this a "one click" install** Hi everyone, I thought I should point out that this might offer the solution for some of you: [ http://www.helicontech.com/zoo/][1] I've not looked at it in detail but it seems like a straight forward process; incorporating all the dependencies etc etc Thomas [1]: http://www.helicontech.com/zoo/