Apache/PHP local install

Chad — Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:26:34 +0000

Today on my Windoze XP machine at work, I installed Apache 2.0.5 and PHP 5.0.1 locally for development. Previously, I had a mapped drive to our server, and I would copy/paste files from my machine to the server, then reload the page in the browser. Repeat 5,895 times. Okay, so maybe not that many times, but it was a pain. Actually, the current version of our lab site (our server is currently “in repair” so I can’t give you a link to it) I did in *cough* ASP *cough*, because I didn’t know PHP at the time and needed to get some Access databases on the web quickly. Now, however, in the coming months I plan on migrating all of the Access data to MySQL and powering it all with PHP (as I learn it). Soooo, I decided to install Apache and PHP today. I’ve heard horror stories of installing server packages and getting it all configured. I found this tutorial that helped alot. I did the Apache binary installer and PHP zip package installation, tinkered with the Apache httpd.conf file settings and some Windoze system file settings, and by 9:30 this morning, I was parsing PHP locally. It was alot easier than I thought it would be, especially since this was my first attempt at installing/running a server. All I can say now is why the hell didn’t I do this earlier?

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Apache/PHP local install