I am very new to PHP and not sure if it is wise to spend time trying to install this way - so I seek advice...

I have a 'locked' company PC - meaning that I am not administrator user and cannot install a new program on it. It is Windows 2000 OS. I have an external drive and I have been able to run the Komodo IDE from the external drive.

I want to know if it is possible to run PHP on the external drive? When I attempt to run the 5.2.6 phpinstall.msi file for a windows install I am told it will not work because I "need to be administrator".

I am able to run other programs like Komodo from the hard drive, but not PHP (so far) And I imagine I need to install Apache on the external drive also in order to do any meaningful work with PHP.

Any chance this will work & what should I try differently if it will? Sadly it is not an option to load PHP to the PC

Any help appreciated - thanks in advance

    If you're not an administrator, you won't be able to install Apache as a service or anything like that. You could, however, install Apache onto the external drive (or just copy the files from a different computer where you're able to install Apache), install PHP (personally I'd recommend using the ZIP package and not the MSI installer), and then manually start Apache whenever you need to run it.

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