PHP Installation Tutorial

[visualAd]

Ignore step 2 of the "Securing Apache" section and you have yourself a web server open to the Internet.

It is advisable that you nail down your Apache configuration by doing the following:

• Set up a virtual server to handle all requests and put the DocumentRoot into another directory. Preferably on another drive.
• Allow only one directory where cgi programs can run.
• Make a backup of important data, just in case.

I wouldn't advise that you put any kind of public web site on a Windows server. When Apache is running as Administrator, exploits which allow control of the PC could result in serious problems, in my opinion, there is no way to run Apache securely on Windows as a public web server, which is why I left it out of the tutorial.

[McCain]

Thanks for the replay

* I have never looked in to virtual servers, so I don't know why it would be a good idea to have one. I will read up on that. I have already moved DocumentRoot to a move convenient place. It's pretty cumbersome to have it deep inside the apache folders... Unfortunately not on another drive since I only have one hdd with one partition in this computer

* I don't use cgi programs at all. How do I remove the possibility to use them at all?

* I allways try to keep a fairly fresh back up of my data. So much can go wrong with a computer that you experiment a lot with

The security reason is fair enough. Thanks for pointing it out

[AvisSoft]

Hi visualAd,

This is so cool. I was never able to install Apache on my Windows XP and there were always some problems with Apache becuase i did'nt knew how to configure it. So i just used to use IIS.

But after readign your tutorial its so eassssssyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Many Thanks.

[McCain]

How about adding a section about installing phpMyAdmin?
I think that's the friendliest GUI to manage mysql databases with

[visualAd]

How about adding a section about installing phpMyAdmin?
I think that's the friendliest GUI to manage mysql databases with

I am somewhat busy at the moment and already have a couple of tutorials to finish. But, if you want to write one on instlalling PHP MyAdmin then please feel free, I'll put a link into the FAQ which should be going up within then next month.

[McCain]

I'm buissy with other projects as well. So I don't have time unfortunatly.

Sorry

[manavo11]

I didn't think there was anything to install... I thought all you need to do is unzip it and put in the folder that Apache/IIS uses?