Posted by Frances on 06/09/06 01:54

Virginner wrote:
> | people keep telling me to change this var.. when I first looked at it
> | yesterday it was already set to 10MB, today at someone's suggestion
> | changed it to 20MB, none of it made any difference.. I think I will
> | uninstall 4.1 and install it again, don't think I have any choice at
> | this point, I think I have exhausted all options here now..
> |
> | and really I think XAMPP should come with a warning that this could
> | happen if you already have MySQL installed, and I think there should be
> | a verion of it w/o MySQL, so as not to cause these problems.. will have
> | to opt for http://us2.php.net/get/php-5.1.4-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror if
> | want to do PHP any development on my machine, hopefully can it make it
> | work with IIS, is probably simpler than spending a whole week figuring
> | out how to config Apache.. oh man.. ok, Virginner, again, many thanks
> | for your help.. Frances
> |
>
> (a) forgot... are you changing the right my.ini ? Make sure you don't have
> more than one, and make sure you put 10M not MB
> (b) when you install using XAMPP it *does* give you the option of whether
> you want to install MySQL.
> (c) I *still* suggest you scrub everything and use XAMPP. You can (assuming
> there are no bits of MySQL or Apache or anything else floating around) be up
> and running in 10 minutes flat. It's a hell of a lot easier than learning
> how to configure Apache (or IIS) to work with PHP to work with MySQL, as it
> does it all in one install. If you want to learn PHP, it's still the
> quickest way to do it.

once again, thanks D... it DOES give you an option of whether or not
you want MySQL??? I REALLY don't remember that.. I would have to see a
screen-shot of it or something.. I don't remember that at all (& most
probably I would have chosen 'no'...) I also don't see that option
here, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html#522 (I mean
does it install MySQL and then just give you option of not turning on
service? that would also scare me.. or can you install just Apache and
whatever you need for PHP without installing any MySQL stuff at all?
(and I assume in that case it wouldn't install demos that pull info from
db? that would make sense..) oh brother..

ok, I did re-install MySQL 1.4.. can basically reconnect ok, only am
having some problems (copied my db's back but can't read tables..), but
that's for another forum.. again many thanks..

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