In case you wanted to know -Auto Installation of Apache, PHP, MySQL - software

[Romwin]

How goes it everyone?  
Since this topic was blank I thought I'd put something in it.  

If you are interested on installing Apache, php, MySQL, myphpadmin and perl onto your system then I have a great link for ya.   If you've ever tried to install all of those one by one, then you know how much of a pain it can be.  Firepages have made a great packet that includes an .exe file that all you have to do is extract it and it does all the work for ya.

If you're completely new to all this then i suggest reading some of their help topics.  

The current package is phpdev4  and heres the link

http://www.firepages.com.au/devindex.htm

Have fun!
Romwin

[LeoKaupe]

Thanks. I'll keep this link in the favorites for future reference.  

[flashswami]

Another similar packge here-

http://www.phpgeek.com/phptriad.php

Or, for windows users, I wrote a tutorial for installing PHP, MySQL and Apache. Go to http://www.flashswami.com and follow the link to 'articles'.

[the pale e]

I'd like to say thanks for posting that (those) links!
Changed my life!

I am running into problems trying to install a more recent version of PHP though.  The end result I'm after is that delicious looking morsel, Ming!  Any ideas, oh great FlashSwami?

Have a great day!

thx,
the pale e

[flashswami]

Hmmm, what kind of trouble? Trouble installing PHP at all or trouble getting MING to work? Or some other unspecified trouble?  

[the pale e]

I just extracted 4.1.1 to c:\ (as their running win32 gag goes) and when I change the httpd.conf file to reflect the change, it says error loading the specified php4apache.dll modeule.  So I thought I'd be clever, and copy the PHP dir to the phpdev dir and no dice.  Same syntax error loading module (specified whatever not found).

I haven't even tried getting Ming working.  Would be nice to have a Ming "ready-to-go" version of the above link!  I'd love to get that sexy ass Ming luvin' a happening!

Thanks for your help!

thx,
the pale e

[Flash-db]

Hey Pale,

In your httpd.conf file you should find a line like this:

  LoadModule php4_module c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
  AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

That should be the default directory where it is installed.  Then go to your php/sapi directory and verify that the php4apache.dll is their.

To install ming - Edit your php.ini file - usually in the windows directory and uncomment the line that looks like this:

;extension=php_mhash.dll
extension=php_ming.dll

Just remove the semi colon from in front of the extension=php_ming.dll line.  

[Flash-db]

Here is another complete package that self installs:


http://www.abriasoft.com/

[Flash-db]

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/phpconf.htm

A graphical frontend to PHP's php.ini file with support for all the standard PHP functionality, and a special 'Unknown' tab to handle any 3rd party plugins.

[Flash-db]

http://www.php4win.com/

The latest PHP packages and useful tools for Windows.

[Flash-db]

Link:  http://www.php4win.com/dotnet/dotnet.php?item=MQ==

PHP .NET

This stuff is highly experimental material, so don't take anything that you read here granted or even to work .
If you don't know what .NET is, you should probably start with the Intro (which are just slides from the german PHP Conference), or some of the stuff available at the Microsoft Developer Network.

What do you need in order to interact with Microsoft's .NET?
First you'll need the Microsoft .NET Framework (currently Beta2 is required), it's available from MSDN.
After that you need the .NET enabled PHP, which is available here.
Read the notes. I mean it! Read 'em!
Use the huge .NET documentation which is available at the MSDN.

Please subscribe to our mailinglist and post your opinions and questions.
To subscribe to the list send a blank email to dotnet-subscribe@php4win.com.
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[flashswami]

Link:  http://www.php4win.com/dotnet/dotnet.php?item=MQ==

PHP .NET


Thanks for that Jeff....very interesting.

[PIXELscheisser]

i am new to php and all the server stuff. can you install the apache server parallel to the IIS? i haven't done it yet, but are they both using http://localhost address?

[vesa kortelainen]

I didn't have any problems..It was easier  than I thought.. So..

sometimes little things really mess up our dayz,
Vesa

[Garrett Bauer]

yup know about this one already,   I just wanted to point out that when you install this at least I could not figure out how to do it, but mysql does not allow you to set up a username and password to administrate.  you have to know that the default is set to root  and no password to log on and administrate the backend (mysql) .