How to install Joomla 1.5 on Windows with an Apache Server

If you have been struggling with the popular Joomla Content Management system running on Windows, this tutorial should help get you going in the right direction.? After all. getting Joomla, Apache, PHP and MySQL all running smoothly and in harmony under Windows can be quite a challenge. In this video tutorial we start with a fresh Windows 2003 server and go through every step needed to get Joomla version 1.5 running on it with the pache webserver, rather than IIS. We install PHP and MySQ through the easy and full-featured XAMPP packageL, tweak the settings of the PHP.INI file, configure IIS to operate with PHP and MySQL, then finally download, install and test Joomla 1.5.