New Joomla installation seems to be choking localhost

[stratpilot]

Let me start by saying I am new to Joomla. I installed PHP, MySQL and Joomla on my local host and all worked fine initially (got the default start website). Then I went to the Administrator pages to start exploring what was available. Without changing anything, I browsed so one of the tabs and everything locked up (e.g. the little message in the lower left corner of my browser said "waiting for localhost"). From that point forward, I could not load any page without timing out. Occasionally, I could load the little test phpinfo.php without it timing out but it would take many minutes to complete loading. I've uninstalled and reinstalled everything several times to no avail.

Interesting side note: I saw some thing on the web that indicated there may be a difference between using "http://localhost/..." and "http://<my computer name>..." Sure enough, when I returned to my joomla installation using http://<my computer name>/Joomla, everything worked fine until I got back into administrator and then is choked the access in that way as well.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

PS - Windows 7, IIS 7.5, PHP 5.3.3, MySQL Server 5.1, Joomla 1.5

[2ninerniner2]

Howdy,

Welcome to Joomla! and the Forum

My suggestion would be to use one of the popular WAMP stacks instead of "rolling your own" I have used most of them and found that in my experience, The Uniform Server and XAMPP to be the "speediest" of the bunch, even on an old COMPAQ P3 with 512MB RAM ... zips right along

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

http://www.uniformserver.com/

If you do get and use one of these, be sure to not have your IIS running at the same time. Not sure about using the computer name instead of localhost, but I have noticed a slight speed improvement using 127.0.0.1 in it's place. This is on a WIN 7 Home Premium 64 bit laptop with 3GB RAM.

Cheers!
Lyle

[stratpilot]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm not sure what you meant by "rolling your own" but I was just using IIS not an apache server. Maybe that doesn't work.

[2ninerniner2]

Guess I misunderstood what you were using That said, generally, CMS systems that use MySQL and PHP, such as Joomla!, WordPress, Drupal, etc., word better with a Linux-based server such as Apache, although they can work with IIS. That is why it's better to use one of the WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) "stacks" for local operation/testing. These stacks employ a version of Apache that works in the Windows OS.

Here is the link to the Joomla Forum area that deals specifically with IIS

http://forum.joomla.org/viewforum.php?f=543