Re: PHPassistance please

Team GBTX LTD wrote:

Greetings I am trying to build a local server environment for my web development projects (I also try to get oscommerce working) . In order to achieve this I downloaded XAMPP but this software package appears to be still in development, full of bugs and incompatibilities. I just simply don't have time to hang around their forum for the next half year to hopefully get it going.

Since this is an installation problem rather than a development one, it should be on one of the general lists ... php-windows or php-install

Now I decided to download Apache/PHP/MySQL/Zend, etc, all individual and build my local server. Apache is on my Windows XP-Pro SP2 already and running just fine (very simple and clean installation) Next: - I downloaded the Windows Binary Installer<http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.3.0-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.msi>[23.85MB] sha1: 1d2c4e6aa5b3d308fb57dd0e2621b6db6d7167f2 This should have given me a window during the installation like "attachment_1", in which I can choose Apache as my server but - it didn't

The 5.3-VC9 build does not support Apache ... you need the 5.3-VC6 builds for that.

- Then I downloaded PHP complete source codePHP 5.2.10 (tar.gz)<http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.10.tar.gz/from/a/mirror>[11,166Kb] - 18 June 2009 md5: 85753ba2909ac9fae5bca516adbda9e9 Now all I need is your assistance on how to build PHP (and possibly include phpMyAdmin) so it would work with Apache and MySQL. Having said this, I would appreciate if you could advice on how to go about it.

Why download the source? There is a binary for 5.2.10 which since it uses the previous windows build structure it does support Apache 'out of the box'. If you still have a problem post to php-windows@lists.php.net. There are also a lot of past messages there on this area. p.s. I'd suggest zencart rather than oscommerce, I'm using a port of zencart myself as I need it integrated with the rest of the site. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php