Sun, 15 Oct 2000 16:30:14 +0000

ASP agggghhh....dont give in to the dark-side hotcut! & if you think that PWS will be an easier ride than apache - get ready for a shock - lol

if you have not already got it installed - you can download PHP4/MySQL/phpMyAdmin/Apache 1.3.12 all zipped and preconfigured to run on (98(& sometimes 95)& 2K) at http://www.firepages.com.au/bundle.php3

good luck

Rob Pengelly — Sat, 07 Oct 2000 19:27:58 +0000

I just came across a great installer program for PHP. It installed the latest version (4.02) onto your Windows platform without any hassles.
The url is
http://php.weblogs.com/easywindows

I just used it, and it is a really great program.

hotcut — Sun, 01 Oct 2000 08:04:00 +0000

Hi vinny

I will look at the page you have given me, and see for my self, if I can find out how to program in ASP

I am (again) having some problems with running ASP from my computer, even though PWS is installed... I am getting tired of it...

Well... I will try to figure that one out

Casper

Vincent Puglia — Sat, 30 Sep 2000 17:35:25 +0000

Hi hotcut,

http://www.freeasp.com

Vinny

hotcut — Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:58:53 +0000

I have given up making PHP work on my computer, that will be way too much work, when I dont know anything about what I am doing, when I am installing it...

I think that I will try ASP instead, that seems a little more easy...

If anybody can give me a good link to some toturials (for biginners) I would appreciate that...

Thanks for your help with PHP, and now I hope that you can help me with ASP. I have found out how to amke ASP run from my computer, so that that shouldnt be the problem...

Casper

[Edited by hotcut on 09-30-2000 at 10:14 AM]

Mark Hensler — Thu, 28 Sep 2000 23:58:05 +0000

Running a webserver on a win 9x box is somewhat frustrating. Most webservers out there were made for *nix boxes, so it took me a while to find win32 files and get mine to work.

I'm running Win98 with Apache 1.3.12, ActivePerl, PHP4, mySQL.

I didn't know PWS supported PHP [even with an install], so I just went and installed Apache. I don't know if PWS supports all the same environment variables and other stuff.

Maverick — Thu, 28 Sep 2000 16:58:45 +0000

You need to use a PHP-friendly web server and PHP itself. I'm not sure if PWS handles PHP (I'd bet no) but several freeware web servers do. Look into either Apache, Xitami or Omni-HTTPD (sp?)

I'd recommend going with Apache since it's so well documented, but the other 2 are probably a little bit easier to set up. There's a good article about installing a local Windows Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL development environment at:
http://www.thedailyspread.com/tech/tut.html

and another good one at:
http://www.e-business.auc.dk/tools/wamp.html

Those will provide step-by-step instructions as well as links to all the pertinent files that you'll need to download.