Problem description:Right after installing PMA, accessing it in Firefox shows a blank page with no output at all. In IE you can see a 500 error (Internal Server Error). Turn on error reporting and you find this: Warning: require_once(./libraries/common.inc.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in ***\mousebomb\pma\index.php on line 35 Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘./libraries/common.inc.php’ (include_path=’.;C:\php5\pear’) in ***\mousebomb\pma\index.php on line 35 And yet the file really does exist, and IUSR (the IIS anonymous access user) has permission on it.

Not long ago I switched from LAMP to WIMP (windows2k3+iis6+mysql5.2+php5.2), and WordPress lost two important features: one is permalinks (static URLs), and the other is email sending. I’ve just perfectly solved the permalink problem, so I’ll share the method. (A so-called permalink is something like http://www.flashj.cn/wp/wimp-wordpress-permalink.html这样的格式) Because Windows doesn’t support .htaccess, to do rewrite you need to download an ISAPI_Rewrite component to implement rewriting. I tried it, and personally I didn’t find the result very ideal.