Plesk newbie questions

[Noel]

I've never used Plesk panel before although fairly familiar with Windows 2008 R2 server.

I need MySQL and PHP running on the server, which I normally install, but it seems Plesk has both already.
However, I can't access MySQL via command line in Windows and nor do I see it as an installed program (same for PHP)

Will it be a conflict if I install MySQL / PHP normally ?

 

[scsa20]

MySQL gets installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\MySQL and PHP gets installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Parallels\Plesk\Additional\PleskPHP5x (replace x with the version that you're using for a site).

As for if it causes a conflict if you install MySQL/PHP normally, I know installing PHP separately won't cause an issue (will need to manually configure IIS for where the runtime libraries are) but not 100% sure about MySQL.