Windows installer
| From: | Phil Driscoll | Date: | Tue, 17 Oct 2000 17:49:50 +0000 |
| Subject: | Windows installer | ||
| Groups: | php.dev php.qa | ||
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You may have seen traffic on the qa list over the last few weeks regarding
the Windows installer for PHP I've been working on.
I made the installer available to the qa group for testing about a week ago
and have also circulated the software amongst colleagues for testing on a
variety of platforms. No problems have come to light so far.
The installer doesn't do any rocket science, but it does provide a familiar
means of installation for Windows users, and takes just about all of the
effort out of installing a basic PHP system under IIS and PWS, and only
leaves server configuration to the user for Apache and other web servers.
In due course, the installer can be enhanced to include extension dlls (at
the expense of greatly increasing the size of the download) and support for
configuring httpd.conf and its equivalent on other servers. However, as it
stands, I believe the installer does a good job for the majority of Windows
users.
You can currently download installer from
http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/SETUP.EXE
I'll update the installer from 4.0.3 to pl1 as soon as I get hold of a
Windows binary.
I'd like to see the installer become available as one of the Windows
download options on www.php.net. Do people think this is a good idea, and if
so, what do we have to do to make it happen.
Cheers
--
Phil Driscoll
Dial Solutions
+44 (0)113 294 5112
http://www.dialsolutions.com
http://www.dtonline.org