James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
Location: Surrey
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Is it me or is this one of the hardest things in the world to do?
It just seems to be a world of open source bollocks and hacking files in notepad and Googling about 100 error messages, applying a hack for each one, then finally getting it working.
I'm not a complete idiot, I've been a .Net developer for about 7 years. Now I'm trying to do something for my dad in PHP/MySQL and it's a fucking nightmare.
I'm trying to use XAMPP, which is supposed to simplify the process, but it's fucking painful.
Rant over.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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In my experience, setting up Apache to serve PHP and installing MySQL separately is a ball ache because you've got to faff about with the config files. Its not difficult as such but its not at all obvious what you need to do to make it all work.
XAMP and similar make it far easier, in fact last time I did it, I installed one of those, can't remember exactly which one but it worked straight away out of the box, mysqldump some database tables and drop the PHP script in webroot and it worked on IP there and then.
It shouldn't be difficult if you get a proper combined distribution of all the necessary bits.
What you currently stuck on? A lot of it will be simple crap that is very annoying that it holds you up.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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Not sure how it's 'fucking painful' as Xamp/Xampp have always been (near enough anyway) 'Plug n Play'.
What issues are you having with it?
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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XAMPP works perfectly out the box on my Mac and VertrigoServ worked perfectly out the box on my Windows PC, and still does actually.
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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I've used WAMP on my work laptop and its worked fine.
One installer, click to launch and away you go.
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Was going to say, I've always used WAMP and found it a walk in the park.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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Another XAMPP user here, A few tards at Uni couldn't get it working though, I didn't have to config anything though.
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pow
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I think I've used XAMP before, was nice and easy
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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Only issue i've had was Apache not starting correctly but found selecting 'Install As Service' in the Xampp/Wamp menu sorted it.
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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Just for reference, you're opening the 'XAMPP Control Panel', pressing 'Start' on 'Apache' and 'MySQL' and then accessing the htdocs folder via: http://localhost right?
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Sam
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Registered: 24th Dec 99
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I use XAMPP on my Mac, and previously when I had Windows I used WAMP on it.
Both setups were very easy to set up. I think for XAMPP the only thing I had to do was edit the MySQL config file for some reason (can't remember why) and that was it.
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Nismo
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Registered: 12th Sep 02
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I've always used XAMPP and its just one simple install? and sometimes its fucked up, I've just backed the directory up and re-installed.
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James
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Registered: 1st Jun 02
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I think most the issues were because I had IIS setup for .Net websites and it was conflicting with XAMPP. I'm just about there now though.
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Dom
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Registered: 13th Sep 03
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Port conflicts?  Multiple VM dev enviroments FTW 
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ed
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Registered: 10th Sep 03
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Can't have Apache and IIS both trying to use port 80 
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Rob_Quads
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Registered: 29th Mar 01
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https://solutionexchange.vmware.com/store/products/8168
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DaveyLC
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Registered: 8th Oct 08
Location: Berkshire
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There is an remote install version of PHP these days, its a piece of piss:
http://www.microsoft.com/web/gallery/install.aspx?appid=PHP53
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