Re: Windows installer
| From: | Hellekin O. Wolf | Date: | Fri, 18 Aug 2000 15:25:40 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Windows installer | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.qa |
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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
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>
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