I have a potential client referred to me by their network guy. The client wants a simple CMS, which I'm comfortable doing. I'm basically subbing as the network guy will handle the paper and mark up my rate by a certain number of percentage points.

The client is running Windows Server 2003 in-house. Neither PHP nor MySQL is installed, and those are the only things I know. The network guy is aware of this and says he prefers to keep their server in-house, but can get outside hosting if necessary. He said I'm welcome to install PHP/MySQL on the in-house server, but I'd have to configure them myself.

That prospect terrifies me as I'm not that far past past newbie stage. I've been reading up on PHP security, but don't feel the least bit qualified to _securely_ set up & configure things up in a production environment as the only installations I've done have been on my home LAN for testing purposes.

I'd love to learn how to do it, but not the expense of potentially exposing the client to a massive security breach and making myself look like a fool. I _do_ need to tell the network guy to just go ahead and find a hosting company, right?

TIA,
Bev

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