Posted by Dung Ping on 12/09/05 18:32

Erwin Moller wrote:
> Dung Ping wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > 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.

Regards,
Dung Ping
>
> Good luck.
>
> Regards,
> Erwin Moller

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