help with PHP on XP

[gandini]

Would anyone be willing to give me some guidance re: installing PHP4 and mySQL on my XP OS and IIS5.1 server? I don't mean do it, but perhaps some links to instructions on the web, etc? And experiences in terms of whether this is easy, hard, a PITA, etc.

thanks and cheers,

[Pekka]

Hi Philip,

Do you really want to run IIS? I mean, Apache is free, more secure and light for your hardware.

I have always installed MySQL and PHP for Apache, using installers from http://www.php.net/ http://www.mysql.com/ and http://httpd.apache.org/

IIS is something I have only looked once - I'll be interested to know how EE works in it, though.

There are PHP+MySQL+Apache installation helpers like
http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/9942.html which make it really easy.

In Windows XP I did not have success to install PHP as Apache module, but installation as CGI worked just fine.

[cultrix]

Hi Philip,
I use IIS & Mysql (NT version) at home to test my albums and as a backup. I am running PHP as an ISAPI not as cgi-bin application. I can say that it works 98% OK. There are a little quirks and some major PITA kinda things. One thing I was not able to make it work is using virtual directories. I could not get the includes to work properly. But mostly the pain is configuring PHP to work properly. Once that is done EE doesnot have any major problems except some minor inconveniences like losing the news header each time you edit it. I had to retype the title each time I chamged the news in the news editoe. Other than that it is pretty stable. For the first time loading into my website I actually created all the exhibitions and added all the photos in my PC and then took a dump of the database and used the dump to recreate the database and rn some update queries to change the path information in the tables and viola! I succesfully transplanted my entire EE database containing about 15 exhibitions and 2000 photos.

Regarding Links

try here


HotScripts software & servers installation kits (http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Software_and_Servers/Installation_Kits/) . I heard good reviews about PHPTriad for Windows but I used regular download from PHP (http://www.php.net) and MySQL (http://www.mysql.com)

If you run into problems Google usenet search (http://groups.google.com) is the best place to search for answers

Hope this helps
Prahalad