 <p>I have no idea of how windows works, but I'd think that you don't put Magento into <code>C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3</code>. So my guess is that the root folder of the virtual host (or whatever equivalent of those on IIS are) is not correctly defined.<br> can you check that?</p> <p>ps: any particular reason you're not using a linux server? I think this is going to give you a lot of troubles down the road.</p>