Installing Testlink on Windows Servers

Greetings everyone,


Like many I have the need to implement a test case management suite. Being knee deep in MSDN licensing there isn't a need to stand up a new linux box or install apache on a windows server that already has IIS installed.... So for those of you wrapped in windows here's a walkthrough for standing up Testlink on your windows box.

1. Download latest testlink from http://sourceforge.net/projects/testlink/files/TestLink%201.9/TestLink%201.9.3/testlink-1.9.3.tar.gz/download
2. (2003 or 08 servers) Using the web platform installer install the latest version of php from http://blogs.iis.net/bills/archive/2006/09/19/How-to-install-PHP-on-IIS7-_2800_RC1_2900_.aspx
3. Windows 7 - Download the latest version of php from http://www.windows.php.net/downloads.php 
4. Extract php to c:\php5
5. Add to your path the location of your libmysql.dll
6. Update your php.ini file
• Enable mysqli extension
• Set the extensions dir 
• extension_dir = "ext" 
• set the max execution time
• max_execution_time = 120
• set the default socket timeout
• default_socket_timeout = 86400
7. Configure IIS
•  Start --> Control Panel -->Programs -->Turn Windows Features on or off and check on the Internet Information Services entry.
•  Activate the World Wide Web Services/Application Development Features/CGI node and also Web Management Tools/IIS Management Console
•  Restart iis - iisreset from a command prompt
•  Start the IIS Management Console
• Double click the Handler Mappings
• Click Add Module Mapping on the right column
•  In the Add Module Mapping dialog
•  Request Path = *.php
•  Module = FastCgiModule
•  Executable = c:\php5\php-cgi.exe
• Name = PHP
• Click yes to create a FastCGIApplication
8. Install MySQL
• Be sure to  run the MySQLInstanceConfig.exe to configure server settings
9. Run the Testlink installer http://localhost/testlink
• Once you have configured and secured Testlink and MySQL your ready to go!