Hello,
After a huge amount of trying out (I'm new at running webservers, I had a lot of problems installing apache too) I finally was able to install postpresql 8.2 (latest version) on my computer. What I want to do in the end is have a local webserver running. I installed ms4w (package with php, mapserver, apache) and I had to change the httpd.conf port to 81 (80 is in use by I-don't-know-what, I can't see that)
Well, I installed the .msi, and I had no idea that the "account" settings had to be left intact. First I thought I could change it, but then it installed and always gave the error "user already exists" (while in the install was asked to create the new user...)
Ok, so I left all ok, left the computer name there, and created the new standard username "postgres". Now I can't start the server, it will say I have to start it not as administrator. Well, I only have one useraccount here and I'm not planning on switching useraccounts just to run postgresql, or change my account so I don't have admin rights anymore.
How do I start it? After that the problems of configuring it with Apache will follow, but first this.
I can't compile, and I'm not planning to either. If I had a dedicated server I probably would run linux or unix or something which can handle better with webservers anyway. Can somebody help me? Thanks!
-Joost
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