RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP and MySQL Configuration on my WinXP Pro machine

WAM server installer? I do in fact have the installer for Apache here, but the only initial irritation when I first tried it out was that even when I told it to use port 81, so that I could in fact run it and IIS alongside, it still came up trying to use port 80, and I didn't seem to be able to 'correct' it, whence I then took it off again. suppose I could try reinstalling it, and at least use it when working in PHP etc. (after then turning off IIS) since my actual PHP work will in fact be hosted on a Linux server anyway. The alternative was in fact to make one of my machines a dual-boot of sorts so I could also play with Linux etc., but a little bit nervous of the situation of a blind/VI guy trying to partition his drives during the install process, and then make choices every time that other machine boots up before my screenreader software starts talking - although there is in facta way to 'test' the new version of Ubuntu on a live bootup CD without installing it, and you can quite easily make the screenreader start 'automatically'. Anyway, like I think I mentioned before, although I'm way more comfortable in Windows XP, my one machine (the play-play machine that I read email on, and browse the internet with) does in fact need to be reloaded at some stage, so I suppose if I can't sort out this issue, then maybe (one day), I'll reload that machine with Linux, and then use it as my local web server or something, but for now I'd just like to get this configuration working. Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Bolte" < billb@hightouchinc.com> To: "Jacob Kruger" < jacobk@cknet.co.za> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 5:46 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP and MySQL Configuration on my WinXP Pro machine Yeah, we do ASP work here (some legacy stuff). I find that for me, it works better if I do my PHP work on Apache and ASP with IIS, so I'm generally switching back and forth (read turning Web Servers off and on my dev computer). We found that the WAMP server installer if very good and use it rather than trying to compile things on our own, etc. It's very easy to enable/disable extensions and set things up. You might give that a try, I'd highly recommend it. But, we do very little PHP hosting on Windows. -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Kruger [mailto:jacobk@cknet.co.za] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 9:41 AM To: Bill Bolte Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP and MySQL Configuration on my WinXP Pro machine I initially had them both installed in the 'default' folders: C:\Program files... But then when I realised that the exts for MySQL etc. hadn't been installed - partially because of that extremely long list of add-ins to choose from when doing the installation - and after one or two other guys on the blind programming listssaid I should rather have installed to paths like c:\php and c:\zMySQL in order to help out the order of hierarchy for some of the DLLs or something, I in fact reinstalled around amonth ago, and while I hadn't actually tested any MySQL code at that stage it was all working fine in terms of other code like manipulating form input, reading an extra text file etc., and now when I actually started playing with MySQL code, it suddenly 'started' generating me these errors, except I suppose that since I was actually sort of not having them announced to me/supressing them, it was possible they were there, but not really specifically affecting the code ai was actually using. Like i said in the previous mail, I now can't even execute the phpinfo() function now since I immediately get those error popups, and no output. Lastly, the reason I use IIS etc. is because I still do work using ASP, ASP.Net, and MSSQL server, and am now sort of starting to train myself into using PHP and MySQL since these are obviously used 'more often' across the world. Thanks for your response/efforts Stay well Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bill Bolte" < billb@hightouchinc.com> To: < php-windows@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2007 4:09 PM Subject: RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP and MySQL Configuration on my WinXP Pro machine I haven't had that experience and have used PHP with both IIS and Apache on WinXP Pro. Have you tried re-installing though? Is there a reason you're using IIS rather than Apache? -----Original Message----- From: Jacob Kruger [mailto:jacobk@cknet.co.za] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:35 PM To: php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: Fw: [PHP-WIN] PHP and MySQL Configuration on my WinXP Pro machine I'd actually thought this list was relatively inactive up until the various replies to all the other messages today, so I thought I'd send a 'reminder' relating to my specific problem (see below). If you guys are all using PHP on a Windows machine, it's a bit strange that I'm the only one who's run into this problem, so hopefully one or two of you can tell me what to look at/into. Thanks in advance Jacob Kruger Blind Biker Skype: BlindZA '...Fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...' ----- Original Message ----- Ok. Had both components installed/configured on my machine, but seem to be experiencing a 'new' problem. Been starting up with this stuff again now, and after wondering why no MySQL related code would produce a result, I went into my php.ini file and made sure it would in fact generate/display all errors, and 'suddenly' I'm getting not only popups whenever any PHP page starts to load moaning about 'invalid memory access' linked to actually loading the relevant DLL files for the database access, and the obvious errors related to not being able to execute any code related to mysql_ objects/functions rendered in the actual output, but I can't even execute normal code like just using something like echo "hello world"; It was working after the last 'move' to a different folder (c:\php and c:\zMysql), but even after looking over various forums, searching for relevant info using google, and making sure that IUSR_MachnieName had full access to the various folders where the .DLL files where located, it still won't work. FWIW, I have Windows XP Pro, IIS, PHP 5.2.3, and MySQL 5.0.41 installed, and followed all guidelines I could find/get for configuration etc., and the paths mentioned in those popup dialogues mentioning these problems do in fact refer to the correct file paths, and file names, and FWIW, it's not just the MySQL DLL it can't load, since that dialogue pops up around 5 times mentioning all 5 of the add-ins I chose during the actual install of PHP etc. I also have both the c:\php and c:\php\ext folders in the path environment variable, at the front of that string. While I would like to get this stuff on track, I'm wondering if its worth it at all... (maybe I should just 'dump' my Windows workstation, and install that Ubuntu CD I have - LOL!) Anyway, any suggestions? -- PHP Windows Mailing List ( http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP Windows Mailing List ( http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php