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Hello!  I have successfully installed CiviCRM on a LAMP server, but on a Windows server things are quite different.  I am working with a very patient support team at Hostek, my shared host provider.  We just got through the initial hurdle of assigning proper permissions to the /sites/default/ directory, and now a host of new errors have arisen.

If you visit this page, you will see the tip of the iceberg:  

http://www.sca-roadside.org/site/civicrm

I won't list all of the errors here, as there are a vast many of them, but I just want to know if there are any SPECIFIC things to watch out for when installing on a Win server, AND/OR when installing in a subdirectory (/site/, as you can see).

Any help will be greatly appreciated, as I am at the point of tears.

Thanks!

~ Richard

P.S. if it would help, my phpinfo is here:  http://www.sca-roadside.org/phpinfo.php

have a look at: http://drupal.org/node/144443

I had some trouble installing civicrm and found a thousand people with the same kind of phpwarning but no solution.
My problem was a simple slash-too-many in the civicrm.settings.php
I had:
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', '/files/civicrm/templates_c' );
where it should be:
define( 'CIVICRM_TEMPLATE_COMPILEDIR', 'files/civicrm/templates_c' );

Check your config, It looks like you have some extraneous slash issues where the path should start with a directory name not a slash.
Once you have done that, if it still doesnt work, you may need to escape your slashes, etc directory\\foo\\bar.
When using things like PHP on windows, the \ is an escape char.   In unix, paths would have a forward slash which is fine.  On windows where paths use backslash, this can cause problems without escaping.