Posted by Jonathan N. Little on 12/10/05 04:16

Dung Ping wrote:
> Erwin Moller wrote:
>
>>Dung Ping wrote:
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>><snip>
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>>>Thanks all for help. My OS is Windows XP home version.
>>
>>Ok, that is your problem.
>>While XP sucks in general, XP Home even sucks harder.
>>For starters, it doesn't have IIS (a webserver).
>>
>>But, we also have good news.
>>The good news is called Apache.
>>It is a webserver, much better than IIS, much safer too.
>>And it is open sourced, free. :-)
>>
>>Google for Apache, and start installing that thing.
>>PHP can run under apache.
>>And apache/php can use mysql.
>>(You'll have to install mysql also of course)
>>
>>Be sure you read a bit first, as you may want to have database and php
>>support compiled in too.
>>
>>If memory serves me well, under windows you only need to uncomment some dll
>>in php.ini to get them available in Apache (like mysql and php).
>>Be sure you read the documentation.
>
>
> My sincere appreciation again. I will try to install apache first,
> then php and mysql.
>

Apache is not to hard to setup, setup is done in a set of *.conf files
which are very heavily commented, the manuals is not too bad either ;-)


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