m20i02m wrote: > > Hi > > I've been asked by my boss to make a copy of our website for a shop > that cannot access Internet. > This copy includes pages in PHP and a MYSQL database. > I have installed WAMPSERVER on a windows XP and my website works fine. > > But now, there's something i have to do and i don't know how. > I need to run wampserver as soon as windows XP has been fully started > and then open a browser ( for example firefox or opera or IE ) on the > start page of my website. > > I hope some of you knows the solution for my request. > Thanks by advance for your help >
I'm running WAMP, so count this as coming from someone moderately experienced but who wants to help [perhaps some other sould will pitch in and I can learn something as well :-)]. If you're running Apache as a service (which is the default on XP) it will start automatically on boot up. The same is true of MySql. I'm not aware that you can absolutely control the sequence of service startup, as you indicate you want the server to run "as soon as windows XP has been fully started." Assuming we get that out of the way, you then want to start a browser and display the first page of the (local) website. You need this for some sort of info kiosk application then? You just need to put a shortcut to the initial page in the Startup folder. If your initial page is an HTML file Windows should automatically call up the default browser to open it; if it doesn't, or if your initial page is a PHP script, check your file associations and make sure Windows will launch a browser to open it, rather than, say, Dreamweaver or whatever editor you might be using. Note that, for an unattended kiosk, you need to have only one user defined for XP (other than the administrator), and that this user shouldn't have a password; otherwise the first thing displayed on boot is the login screen, and until someone logs in your show's dead in its tracks. With security thus compromised on this station, it goes without saying that you shouldn't have anything sensitive on this machine. There are a whole lot of other issues involving setting up kiosk systems which we won't get into here. Is there perhaps some specific problem you're encountering? It would be more helpful if you detailed whatever you've tried on your own and described at what point you're having difficulty. Since you managed to setup the WAMP server in the first place I suspect you might have tried some things that didn't work...
