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[Jeff Siegel]

Good suggestions. I have it on a Windows 98 machine/laptop and was 
thinking about placing the bat files in my Startup folder.

Jeff

John Lacey wrote:

> 
> 
> Jeff Siegel wrote:
> 
>> Downloaded XAMPP from http://www.apachefriends.org/xampp-en.html for 
>> use on my Win98 laptop. I've listed below the skills you would need to 
>> get this up and running after downloading the install file.
>>
>> Essential skill No. 1: creating a folder
>> Essential skill No. 2: browsing to that folder
>> Essential skill No. 3: double-clicking on a few files
>>
>> That's it! It's an absolute pleasure to install! It runs beautifully 
>> on my antique Compaq Armada.
>>
> 
> Better'n sliced bread eh?  I have my students load that up on their 
> [typically Windows] home systems so they can do all the good stuff 
> outside class.  And to uninstall, ya just delete the xampp folder!  In 
> the classroom, we create a LAMP platform.
> 
> A couple things I have them do is to copy the ApacheMonitor.exe from 
> \xampp\apache\bin up to where all the bat files are in C:\xampp for 
> convenience.  Then they can control/restart apache by invoking the 
> monitor, which ends up in the system tray -- good for experimenting with 
> php.ini settings when you want to bounce the server.  And I remind the 
> win2k/xp users to make sure apache is set to "Manual" startup mode in 
> Services -- don't want a web server running behind your back!
> 
> John
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