Everyone, We all need to remember also that once a person is used to Windows, Linux is a learning curve (albeit a small one) that doesn't need to be acheived if one has access to Windows. No one wants to spend time where it is not required to get the job done. I've set up PHP on Apache on Fedora 4 and 5. Done using yum, this can actually be an easier setup than on Windows. But I have found the MANUAL installation on Fedora to be more difficult than that of the MANUAL installation on Windows/IIS simply because I am less familiar with Fedora. There are some situations where I have been forced to use a manual installation of PHP, so this is always a concern for me. I say if you just want to get PHP up-and-running quick and dirty, stick with what you know so that no time is wasted. -Aaron Kenney On 5/21/06, Alf Stockton <alf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Aaron Kenney wrote: > John, > > My recommendation is to somehow install Windows 2000 and then PHP 5 on > IIS using ISAPI. I've run Windows 2000 with minimal graphics settings > and been able to function. If you have older than a Pentium II > processor, it's time to buy a new computer. Even the cheapest one you > can find will be better. If you live somewhere where computers are > extremely difficult to come by, I may even be able to ship a computer > to you if the company I work for would be willing to dontate one. At > least one that will run Windows 2000. > > I've had Windows 2000 running on a Pentium "1" 133 MHz. If your > computer is at least that good, you could probably do the same. You > may, at most, have to update your motherboard's BIOS (usually free) > and then upgrade the hard drive. > > -Aaron Kenney > > > On 5/19/06, John Jairo Vega Angulo <brazodereina@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, everyone: >> Well I'm calling for your help after days and nights of trying the >> installation of php with no results. >> My only sin is to have an unsupported OS (win 95 and PWS 4), so every >> installation of any version have seem close to a nightmare. >> >> So the question is, what's the version? (no matter how old it can be, >> i REALLY NEED to start programming in php) You do of course know that php works fine on Linux, Linux runs on just about any hardware and certainly on older PCs. Linux is free and not half as difficult to setup as one is given to believe. With it you can do just about anything that one could do with Windows and you will find a hugh amount of support and assistance on the Internet for whatever distribution of Linux you might choose. If you follow some basic rules php scripts/apps developed on Linux will run on Windows either under IIS or Apache. In fact php is developed on Linux. I know this is a php windows email group but I thought that I would share the above with you anyway. -- Regards, Alf Stockton www.stockton.co.za Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately, it can still be changed today. My email disclaimer is available at www.stockton.co.za/disclaimer.html
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