Posted by Frances on 06/01/06 16:50

Erwin Moller wrote:
> Erwin Moller wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>WAMP:
>>If you also plan on using mySQL as a database, then your setup is often
>>refered to on the net as WAMP (Windows/Apache/MySQL/PHP).
>>
>>A few ready-to-go installers can be found to install the whole shebang
>>right away for you, but I don't know if they are good/reliable.
>>(I rather do stuff by hand myself untill I think I understand what is
>>going on.)
>
>
> By the way: if you want to go with a all-in-one installer (and not do it by
> hand), I heard this one is good:
> http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller

thank you very much Erwin.. don't even know what you mean by install
"by hand" (or by "ready-to-go installer"..) don't know which ones are
which among files I downloaded.. I downloaded PHP 5.1.4 zip package
(first link under "Windows Binaries")

I'm not rushing into things.. I did read this pg
http://us2.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php#install.windows.installer..
again, it says to open "executable installer".. I don't know which one
that is.. (yes, instructions ARE "a bit cryptic".. this is the problem
for newcomers...:)

(yes, I do want to make db-connections (already have MySQL installed and
make connections to it from both Tomcat and stand-alone java classes..
yes, btw, Tomcat, is also confusing at the beginning, took me a long
time to figure out how to set it up first time I installed it.. now I
can install and set up Tomcat in no time...:)

so does it make sense for me to run PHP with IIS? (what is ISAPI?) or
should I download Apache Server anyway and run it with that instead?
Apache the way you describe sounds complicated, mabye IIS is a better
option for me? I already have MySQL installed, so WAMP doesn't make
much sense for me does it?

don't mean to sound ungrateful, but am afraid yr responses confused me
even more....:) still, thank you for your help, I do appreciate it...

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