"PHP and MySQL are a good combination when it comes to providing dynamic content to your user base", Scott Lowe writes over at Builder.au. Over the years, these two products have grown well beyond their initial niche and now power some of the busiest sites. While both products are open source and initially ran on UNIX/Linux, for some time, both have been available for the Windows platform, he writes. In the article, Scott provides you with step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring these products in a Windows environment. For some of you, the information presented here will be simplistic, but the article is designed to be a complete step-by-step guide toward accomplishing the goal in the article title, he explains.
This particular software combination is often referred to as WIMP (Windows/IIS/MySQL/PHP), taking after the popularisation of the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) name for the Linux world, Scott explains.

According to Scott, the steps include:

• Step 1: Install the Application Server role onto your Windows Server 2003 R2 system
• Step 2: Download PHP and MySQL