Re: help needed with windows install part of the PHP manual

On Monday 21 June 2004 11:43, Jakub Vrana wrote: > How we want the installation under Windows should work? The consensus is > probably "copy everything (php.exe, php.ini, php*.dll, extension's and > library's DLLs) in some directory (e.g. C:\PHP) and edit your server > specific file". Is it politically correct to try changing the PHP itself > to work with these simple installation instructions instead of writing > complicated instructions divided for different servers, PHP versions, > newbies - advanced, machines with more than one PHP version, etc.? > Thats not as simple as it sounds. It is possible for php 5, because there is php.exe for the cli-version and php-cgi.exe for the cgi-version. Unfortunately this is not true for php 4 versions, before we can instruct people to dump all contents to e.g. c:\php. We have to instruct them, to rename php.exe to php-cgi.exe or to rename /cli/php.exe to something else. So far, there is no easy solution "dump all contents to c:\php", which will work for php 4 and php 5, without specific instructions for php 4. Of course, this would be possible if php 4 get packaged like php 5, but i doubt it will happen:-( Regards Friedhelm