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For Windows: Binaries and sources Releases. Which version do I choose?

For Windows: Binaries and sources Releases

If you are using PHP as FastCGI with IIS you should use the Non-Thread Safe (NTS) versions of PHP. Apache Please use the Apache builds provided by Apache Lounge. They provide VC9, VC11 and VC14 builds of Apache for x86 and x64. PHP form processing. This tutorial will build on the previous PHP form tutorial, introduce some more concepts of PHP form processing, HTML forms and form validation, and instead of saving data to a text file, we will save data to a MySQL database.

PHP form processing

This tutorial will assume that you’ve read the first tutorial and that you have a basic understanding of SQL and MySQL. Note: Using Simfatic Forms you can create feature-rich web forms without coding. Visually design the form, get the form submissions by email, save to database and more. Read more about Simfatic Forms. Quick Linux Server w/ Apache+PHP+MySQL+MailServer+PhpMyAdmin+Webmin+FTP Server+Webalizer+Firewall. How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows: setting up PHP - Web design tips & tricks.

Return to the main page Page: 12 3 45 Installation The installation of PHP is bit odd since instead of using a single installation package you need the ZIP package and the installer package, since the installer doesn't contain the full PHP package (but it's useful for creating a working php.ini file easily).

How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows: setting up PHP - Web design tips & tricks

Also, the part of the PHP installer for configuring Apache hasn't been finished yet for versions 4.x, so we'll need to add some lines to httpd.conf. How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows: setting up Apache - Web design tips & tricks. Return to the main page Page: 1 2 345 Installation Double-click in the .MSI file to launch the installation of Apache (Windows 98/Me users may need to install previously the MS Windows Installer).

How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows: setting up Apache - Web design tips & tricks

After accepting the license, you'll be prompted for some information: Network domain, Server name and Administrator's email. Since this will be a test server, you can enter whatever you want, but I recommend using your computer network name as server and domain, since this allows accessing the server from other computers in the local network by name instead of by IP number only. Then choose Custom install and remove Build Headers and Libraries, since they are needed only for developing server extensions.

Press Next for starting the installation. How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows: test your web pages at home - Web design tips & tricks. Last updated: 2006/01/15 Return to the main page Page: 1 2345 When you are making a web page, the easiest way of view a page stored in your hard disk is double-clicking in the file, which usually results in the page being opened in your default browser.

How to install Apache (and PHP+MySQL) on Windows: test your web pages at home - Web design tips & tricks

Although this method (which I still use sometimes) it's good enough for simple static pages, it's not useful if you you are using server side languages (PHP, Perl, ASP...), or even for pages that are static but use links relative to the server root (like "/index.html" or "/css/styles.css"). In this situations the solution is either upload the files to the server of your web host (quite cumbersome, and not feasible or desirable if the site is already open to the public) or set up a test server in your local network/computer, which is the quick and safe way of testing your design changes. Difference between PHP thread safe and non thread safe binaries. Since the release of PHP 5.2.1 back in Feburary there has been two new binary packages available for Windows, the non thread safe PHP binaries and the non thread safe PECL binaries.

Difference between PHP thread safe and non thread safe binaries

Since then I've read many threads in Internet forums where there seems to be a bit of confusion on what these extra binaries are, how they are used, and what effect they have. In this article I'll discuss the pro's and con's of these new binaries. Since PHP first came to Windows back on the 20th of October 2000 with the release of PHP 3.0.17, the Windows binaries have always been released as thread safe packages. The reason for this is that Windows uses a multi threaded architecture as opposed to the multi proccess architecture of Linux and Unix. The problem this has when using PHP on IIS in CGI mode is that it makes it very slow as CGI was built on a multi process model, not a multi threaded model. There have been a few options available for a while to get PHP performing well on IIS. Setting Up Name Based Virtual Hosting on Ubuntu Server. If you've enjoyed this blog, please consider picking up a copy of my Ubuntu book, Instant Ubuntu.

Setting Up Name Based Virtual Hosting on Ubuntu Server

Thanks for visiting! I do apologize again for some of the recent downtime on the blog. I’ve been researching tuning options all evening to try to bring the memory consumption lower. I did also add an additionl 256M RAM to the machine hoping that will help. Thanks for the patience during this bumpy ride. I wanted to put down some of my notes concerning configuring Apache2 with virtual hosts for hosting multiple sites.

Installing Apache 2. How to make Apache run ASP.NET / ASP.NET 2.0 - Ohad's Blog. An attempt was made to access a socket in a way forbidden by its access permissions. : make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80. [help] disable NT kernel & system. Start or Stop the Web Server (IIS 7) Xampp.