Hi,

I just bought this book and am looking to get AMP installed and running smoothly in order to follow along with the exercises. I installed XAMPP 1.6 and I'm using Windows XP and Firefox. When I try to make the changes to customize Apache (httpd.conf) I do not see the lines of code the book reads:

AddType application/x-tar .tgz
AddType image/x-icon .ico

However I do see this line of code after the text:

AddType application/x-gzip .tgz

(see attached)

When I do all the configuring here then try to run Apache I can not connect to localhost, apache doesn't run.

MySQL is another problem.

I cant seem to test the install in DOS whenever I open DOS I see whats in the attached and cant do c:\xampp\xampp\mysql\bin\mysql --install

Is that even necessary with XAMPP installed? It seems so because I will need see what databases are setup...

    Uninstall XAMPP and reinstall it using the normal defaults. It will install properly without you having to worry about the above mentioned stuff! XAMPP installs both PHP 4 and PHP 5 and there is a switch file you can use to the version that you need to use according to various conditions. Then all you need to do is tweak the php.ini file which with a normal install with standard default selection you will find in C:\Program Files\xampp\apache\bin[/B]

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