This guide may help you to install MDriven Server locally on Windows 7, if you had a problem during the installation with this article – Installing MDriven Server on Windows.

If Microsoft Web Platform Installer is not installed yet on your computer, download and install it – Microsoft Web Platform Installer 5.0 - https://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

Open Microsoft Web Platform after installation and find Microsoft Web Matrix 3 on the "Products" tab and install it on your computer.

Microsoft Web Matrix 3 in the Web Platform Installer

Make sure that you have IIS Express already installed on you computer. (If you use Visual Studio, it should be installed). If not, install IIS Express from Web Platform Installer.

Now, open Microsoft Web Matrix. If you already have a folder with MDrivenServer please choose "Open" -> "Folder" and find your folder with MDriven Server.

Open MDriven Server as a folder in Web Matrix 3

Choose "Site" at the bottom and go to "Settings". Enable SSL Connection.

Enable SSL Connection

When you enabled SSL connection press "Run". You can press on a link near SSL Connection checkbox and open it directly on your default browser.

Open MDriven Server in your browser

On the first screen you should register a new user for MDriven Server. For example "admin" (not "a", used by Turnkey)

After this you may log in and head to Admin area -> Infos, errors and MDrivenServer evolve and push "Evolve Admin database.

Important! MDriven Turnkey will use a user account named “a”, so you need to go back and head to AutoForm select "databaseIdentity" to admin.

Setting up the "a" user

Choose ASP_User -> Show and there you can see all user of MDriven Server. The user "a" will be on the top, if you click on the "Details" you will be able to change user name to another one.

After this, you can log out and register user "a" with your own password.