[UPHPU] Apache and PHP on Windows XP

Jonathan Duncan jonathan at jkdwebmagic.com
Tue Oct 17 14:08:51 MDT 2006


On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, David Boucha wrote:

> On 10/17/06, peterfripp <peterfripp at oasisbb.net> wrote:
>> I am a newbie and am trying to setup Apache to work with php on my Windows
>> XP workstation.
>> 
>> Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>
>>   Peter Fripp
>
> While I learned a TON setting up Apache, PHP and MySQL on my windows
> box a while back, after my annual windows reinstall I just used XAMP
> from http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
>
> It's worked great for me in a dev environment. I don't know how it
> would work out in a production environment.
>
> Dave
>

Another alternative, that takes a little longer, but works great, is to 
download a copy of SuSE and dual-boot into Linux.  That makes Apache and 
PHP work really well on any Windows system.

Jonathan


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