Re: Windows installer

From: Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:25:40 +0000
Subject: Re: Windows installer
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OK Phil, I guess the installer is right but your page seems to be wrong : - Install directories should have the same name in "standard" and "advanced" installs. - file format should be .php ONLY. Cheers, hellekin Phil Driscoll wrote: > > Thanks for all the feedback folks. > In line with the comments I have received, I have changed the installer as > follows: > > You can now select a 'standard' or 'advanced' installation. > PHP by default gets installed to Program Files\php > I've added ticked and shaded checkboxes for MySQL and ODBC to the 'External > module support' bit. > I've added Apache to the 'Server type' list. > I've removed .html and .php3 from the File types list > In the advanced installation, I've changed the default for when an old > php.ini is found to keeping the old one. > > I've updated the screenshots at > http://www.dialsolutions.com/phil/php/installer/ to reflect the > changes. > The page now shows a two column table showing the 'standard' and 'advanced' > options. > > The server installation stuff is now my biggest concern. > I think I'm ok with PWS and older version of IIS which use the registry. > For IIS I still have to work out how to edit the metabase. If anyone has any > experience with this, I sure could use some help. > For apache, I think I can edit the httpd.conf file as long as they are in a > common format. In the version I have on my NT box (1.3) I manually added the > appropriate ScriptAlias, Addtype and Action lines to the conf file. On my > Linux box, the httpd.conf file has some cute conditional stuff in which > automatically sets up the php entries if PHP4 is defined. Does anyone know > if the Windows version ever has the conditional stuff in the file, or if > it's safe to just add (or edit) the required lines. > > I have made no attempt so far to deal with the issue of ISAPI or Apache > modules, as they are not yet at production strength. > > Cheers > -- > Phil Driscoll > Dial Solutions > +44 (0)113 294 5112 > http://www.dialsolutions.com > http://www.dtonline.org > > -- > PHP Quality Assurance Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-qa-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-qa-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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