March 26, 2006

Configuring IIS and Apache for PHP

As I mentioned in a previous post, in order to develop PHP web pages on your local PC you need a web server installed. You basically have two choices: Use a software package to install everything you need or you can install them seperately to get the greatest control over your development environment. For Windows users if you do not have the Professional edition that includes Internet Information Server (IIS) you need to down the Apache web server instead.

Configuring either IIS or Apache can be tricky and somewhat confusing so I did the research for you and give you detailed steps on how to configure either IIS or Apache to work with PHP.

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November 3, 2005

Tools for a Local PHP/MySQL Environment

In order to setup a proper development environment for your home PC to create and test PHP and MySQL web pages you will need at least three components:

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