Simple PHP Apache MySQL Tutorial for Windows

SquirrelJ

Does anyone know a really good step by step tutorial on how to install the above 3 on windows. I am having real trouble getting it to work.

Cheers for anyhelp

roscor

have you not tried xampp, all the instalation guide is on there, I set mine up fairly trouble free

SquirrelJ

Cheers for that I have managed to download xammp but where do i put my PHP files on my hard drive so i can access them?? At the moment i have about 3 php pages that I have been using on windows in my C:\Inetpub\wwwroot. Where do i put them so i can use them with xammp???

Cheers

laserlight

What I do is this:

Install Apache using the installer.
Install MySQL using the installer.
Install PHP using the zip archive, following the PHP Manual instructions.

The only problem I had was with a DLL conflict that can be resolved by not placing the path to MySQL on the system path.

bradgrafelman

laserlight wrote:
The only problem I had was with a DLL conflict that can be resolved by not placing the path to MySQL on the system path.

Probably a better solution would be to place the PHP directory before the MySQl directory (in fact, on the systems where I install PHP, I just put the PHP directory as the first directory in the PATH variable).

roscor

Heres what to do!

1/ Install xampplite and place it in your documents.
2/ You will then have a list of 27(ish) files begining with apache through to xampp-portcheck. open up htdocs.
3/ open up xampp
4/ open up htdocs and place you web pages into there eg index.html(home page)
5/ now place http://localhost/xampp/htdocs/index.htm into the url bar and hit go. you should see your home page (index.html)

nb you may have to play around with the exact location, I had to create a second htdocs.

good luck

laserlight

Probably a better solution would be to place the PHP directory before the MySQl directory (in fact, on the systems where I install PHP, I just put the PHP directory as the first directory in the PATH variable).

Ah yes, I have forgotten about order in the system path.

nb you may have to play around with the exact location, I had to create a second htdocs.

If you would learn just a little about configuring your webserver (e.g., on editing httpd.conf for Apache), you would be able to get it to point to the right location without resorting to such hacks.

bradgrafelman

laserlight wrote:
If you would learn just a little about configuring your webserver

Which is why I never recommend the pre-made packages (XAMP, WAMP, ...) and only suggest installing the components yourself. You geta better feel for how each works and how they are configured.