note 47675 deleted from tutorial by philip

Note Submitter: spwhitton at users dot sourceforge dot net ---- I have found an excellent server package for Windows that uses Apache, called Fireserv. I currently use it for any testing work on my home computer. The control panel has a simple interface so that anyone can use it - everything (and I mean everything) is automatic so all you have to do is place you pages in the WWW root. It allows an alternative to IIS if you are using an operating system that doesn't support it such as XP home edition. Fireserv automatically installs PHP, CGI, Perl and MySQL with phpMyAdmin. Sadly it appears that the software development has ceased so the latest version contains slightly outdated versions of the above mentioned technologies. I have also discovered that the site that it originated from no longer exists so I recommend searching the various download services (such as CNet's download.com) for a copy. I would recommend this package to pretty much anyone although I am not sure how it would cope in a production environment although I would have thought it would work as well as IIS, if not better. Sean Whitton