Posted by Christoph Burschka on 02/27/07 12:25

Jeff North wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 20:52:03 -0700, in alt.php "Thad"
> <tsobota@cox.net>
> <DVNEh.32760$AU.20356@newsfe07.phx> wrote:
>
>> | alright, you've probably heard this question a million times, I just gotta
>> | ask it again.
>> |
>> | Running xp professional. Need to run the pages on my computer for testing
>> | my php. What is the best way for a dodo like me who thinks he knows how to
>> | operate a computer?
>> |
>> | Thad :)
>> |
>
> Ensure you have IIS installed and running, by default IIS is not
> installed. You'll need you installation cd for this.

Note that IIS differs from Apache in several points, and this also makes
PHP behave differently. If your site will eventually run on a Windows
server with IIS, then this is no problem (though personally, I wouldn't
recommend it).

But since it sounds like you are only testing your site locally before
uploading it to an Apache server, you should probably avoid IIS and use
XAMPP as suggested previously.

--cb

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