Re: Running PHP on a Thumb Drive

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 11:02:54 -0500 John Nichel <jnichel@by-tor.com> wrote: > I think this would be a problem with Windows boxes. Don't some of the > > DLL's for Win PHP and Apache need to go into the system directory? > > John W. Holmes wrote: > > Has anyone ever tried to run a PHP/Apache/MySQL system on one of > > those Thumb/Pen drive systems. You can get 128MB for $35 now and it > > just seems like a great way to carry around a demo system to > > clients. You'd just have to plug it in, run a little bat file to > > start everything up, and then start browsing your pages. It doesn't > > seem like it'd be any different than running it off of a hard drive. > > Has anyone done this? Do you think 128MB is enough? Thanks for any > > information... If its like most Windows applications its just checking for the DLLs in the system path, which if the dlls are in the execution directory, it will work. Though this is just from windows experience, not specific to php and apache. -- Tom In a world without boundaries why do we need Gates and Windows?