Running PHP powered site from CD

[Anon]

Aren't there any tools with who you can put a php powered site on CD? I want to distribute my PHP site on CD, but is there any proper installer/manager for so every mother-in-the-kitchen-who-has-a-PC can handle the CD easily if you know what I mean ?

Thanks in advance !

[Anon]

This should be on somebody's to-do list, but so far I haven't heard anything about anyone working on this. The real key is not PHP itself, but getting a workable webserver that will run from a readonly filesystem. For all I know I few minor tweaks to Apache for NT might be all that's needed, but for 95/98? Who knows...

[Anon]

At my previous work (webdeveloper) we had to put a few projects (PHP, using MySQL) on CD so we could use them to give off-line presentations for clients that didn't have an internetconnection.

We tried the following and it worked (win95/98, winnt after a few adaptations to conf files) :

• We copied the complete Apache, MySQL and PHP directories to a "temporary drive" (with subst e.G., or just an empty partition).
• in the "php.ini" (PHP) and "httpd.conf" (apache) we corrected every link, making them all 'relative' (e.g.: "/apache/htdocs" in stead of "c:/apache/htdocs")
• we created an autorun which called for a batch file. This batchfile started mysql and the server. (using start.exe found on the WIN98 CD)

Now MANUALLY we created a file (not sure about the filename "hosts" I think) with an url and ip-address. When someone typed in "http://www.my-url.com" he got to the "localhost". But this part was not done by me, so I'm not sure how it went.

WINNT gave some problems, but they were solved by copying some files to some directory (don't remember which, sorry!).

Hope this helps you out...

Jeroen

[Anon]

Hey, that's a start; thanks!