Re: Running PHP on a Thumb Drive

Sorry to drop in rather late (digest sub) and slightly OT. I have no experience whatsoever with Thumb/Pen drive systems. But I found a very interesting and working(!) model to get PHP/Apache/MySQL/Perl running from a CD (approx.22MB): http://www.x-author.de/en/tools/amp/x-author.html It should be possible (in theory at least) to get this onto a Thumb/Pen drive. The system is conceived for win32, but there are some pointers available to get it to run 'elsewhere' at webmasterworld (you'll have to register before being able to read the posts, but it sheds some light onto the inner workings): http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum13/1760.htm Hope this helps, -- Dirk Maetens "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... > > ---John W. Holmes... > > PHP Architect - A monthly magazine for PHP Professionals. Get your copy > today. http://www.phparch.com/