IME, any modern Linux distro will let you setup a viable Apache/PHP/MySQL configuration with a few clicks/commands in its package manager of choice. I am partial to Debian and Ubuntu, as that's where most of my experience is. And it's very easy to setup a barebones system that you just put LAMP on, which is good if you're hosting it as a virtual machine image. I would actually recommend against Red Hat, as their version numbers are all kinds of screwed up. (They will take an old version, patch it with all the changes to be the modern version, but leave the version number as the old one. So what they call PHP 4.3.9 is really PHP 4.3.11 or maybe 4.4.something, I don't know, I don't know if THEY know.) On Sunday 25 June 2006 09:08, Grae Wolfe - PHP wrote: > It has become evident that I need some form of local testing environment > so that I can figure out what is wrong with one of my $sql statements. > Can anyone tell me what the easiest platform is to set up a PHP/MySQL > system? I have a PC and a Mac on OS X, and with the use of VirtualPC I > have the ability to load most flavors of Linux as well. > I hate to have to go through this to test a single error, but if anyone > can help with this, I would truly appreciate it. -- Larry Garfield AIM: LOLG42 larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ICQ: 6817012 "If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it." -- Thomas Jefferson -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
