Re: RE: the windows install part story

On Wednesday 07 July 2004 19:13, Nuno Lopes wrote: > Hi! > > Steph is right! There is no consensus. I've found a trully oficial way to > install PHP windows :-) at: > http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;323962 After a quick review: that seems o.k but only for the installer package. As for the zip they say read install.txt ....;-( > I think we should discuss this issue with the internals' mailling list, so > that we could find an oficial way. (there might be some bugs in PHP because > Jakub's installation can find libmysql.dll in the PHP folder and mine > can't). AFAIR the win32 guys, Edin and Frank had some good solutions, no? > And apart of this, we might need to have two different install > instructions... Yes, one basic, quick to setup, working for newbies. They will install one version with one webserver. If we are able to provide this, also working with gtk, fine. One advanced for setting up multiple versions of php with multiple webservers. In an ideal world, the installer package should handle this, including most common webservers (iis, apache1/2, xitami, sambar.....). But I am afraid this will not happen soon, if ever. Beside that, someone could have a look at xampp for windows, www.apachefriends.org, how they deal with the installation. The next step, in my ideal world, would be to give detailed instructions how to _upgrade_ php. But that is another story. Friedhelm p.s.: next week I can probably spent some time for testing the different suggestions on win2k AS ;-) Beside that it would be great to have the various install suggestions in one central place (wiki, summary in phpdoc cvs....) > Nuno > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steph" <steph@zend.com> > To: "Gabor Hojtsy" <gabor@hojtsy.hu>; "PHPdoc" > <phpdoc@lists.php.net>; > "Nuno Lopes" <nlopess@php.net>; "Jakub Vrana" <vrana@php.net> > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 1:16 PM > Subject: [PHP-DOC] RE: the windows install part story > > > Hi Goba, > > > > As you'll have seen from the loooooong thread, there's no consensus when > > it > > > comes to win32 setups. That's the problem. Whatever ends up in the PHP > > manual will become the official way, and we're none of us certain what > > the 'official way' should be. > > > > Seems a good time to take advice from above.. > > > > - Steph > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] > > > Sent: 07 July 2004 11:41 > > > To: PHPdoc; Steph; Nuno Lopes; Jakub Vrana > > > Subject: the windows install part story > > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > I am just standing here, and getting to understand less and less from > > > what is working where and in what setup. Since I don't have a windows > > > to test anything, I would be happy, if someone would be so kind and > > > take the windows installation instructions and reform what is inside. > > > We know that it violates Microsoft recommendations in the current way, > > > and is inconvinient if you would like to remove PHP later, or even just > > > upgrade. So it needs some volunteer to be rewritten. Until this gets > > > done, we cannot replace the old install part with this new one (which > > > would be much more suitable for PHP 5). > > > > > > Goba -- http://www.jungle-world.com/