On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Tony Frasketi wrote: > I would appreciate it if you would steer me to one or more of those > groups you mentioned that offer pre-packaged version of Apache with > Perl, MySQL and PHP for windows....
A quick Google search turns up several: http://www.google.com/search?q=windows+Apache+Perl+MySQL+PHP Look through them and find one you like. > Can these packages run on the same machine that I have windows > running? Do I access these packages from Windows or do i have to > dedicate a windows machine just for Apache functionality? Yes. That's rather the point :-) You can deploy things using these packages, but IMO that isn't really what they're most suitable for. All this software works fine on Windows now, but it really sings on Unix, and that's really the best way to put it into production. These kits are useful for developers to set up things on their Windows workstations (or laptops) and do all the work there, developing and testing sites all from one computer that isn't even necessarily attached to a network -- think of commuting on a train, etc. Once you're happy with how it works here, you can upload your work to whatever the server may be (or serverS, for that matter, if things are broken up that way), and everything should work the same way there that it did originally. These kits make things very easy, too. I've seen them set up on laptops for non-technical managers and salespeople so that they could do onsite demos of complex Apache / Perl / PHP / MySQL / Flash / Actionscript web sites. Even if there wouldn't be a network connection available for the demo, no problem, just click the "Apache Start" icon in the Start menu, then open up http://localhost/demo/ in the web browser, and it seems as if the salesperson was connected back to the "real" site. Everything is going to work exactly the same way as the real site, even when it's all just running from a modest little Windows laptop. I won't bother recommending a specific kit because every time I've looked in the past year or so, I turn up a whole different set of "top" ones according to Google rankings, and it isn't clear to me which, among the ones that come and go, has the best reputation. I knew a guy that really liked UniServer, to name just one, but I didn't like that one because the directory layout was really eccentric and it promoted bad habits like putting half the web server config in a bunch of scattered and hidden .htaccess files rather than one central httpd.conf, which made it really annoying to figure out some of the behavior it did. It mostly worked, but was hard to tinker with. I found another one that seemed to be much more sane than UniServer, but it was mostly in French & so was not really useful to a typical American development group. In any case, I forget what it was called. So, like I say, search for yourself and decide for yourself which suite looks most useful to you. There's lots of options... :-) -- Chris Devers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
