Comments on: Finding the Apache Windows installer

By: David Powers

David Powers — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:41:21 +0000

Type “quit” (without the quotes) in Terminal.

By: Andrew Lindsay

Andrew Lindsay — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:09:22 +0000

MAMP Pro 1.7 has been working fine on Leopard 10.5.2 since install several months ago.

I started following your instructions on setting up MySQL:
1) Add export PATH=”$PATH:/usr/local/mysql/bin” to the .profile file
2) Open Terminal, type mysql -u root
3) Type use mysql

Got the message “Database changed” and I - DOH - realized this would probably interfere with MAMP, so stopped and didn’t proceed to set a password for user Root, or to delete anonymous access.

But now MAMP won’t launch PHPmyAdmin
Is there a way to undo the “use mysql” command?

By: Elvie Tan

Elvie Tan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:17:37 +0000

I have a wamp server installed and it works fine.

By: Elvie Tan

Elvie Tan — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:16:42 +0000

The apache is seems to be running - but when I clicked start, I got the message Requested operation has failed. I tried to do cd c:\program files\apache group\apache2\bin - it says to such file.

There was not apache2 folder on my computer.

By: Adriana

Adriana — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 17:37:40 +0000

Thanks, David. The installer makes things a lot easier, but I am having trouble nevertheless. If I cannot find a remedy myself I will ask for help in the books forum, which is probably more appropriate.

By: David

David — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:07:03 +0000

No, it won’t mess up things, Adriana. The only difference is that the version you installed also contains support for openssl. You need that only if you want to develop pages that use secure sockets layer (ones that have a URL beginning with https).

By: Adriana

Adriana — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 15:57:36 +0000

I found this page after I had downloaded the Apache msi installer following the instructions in PHP Solutions. I used apache_2.2.6-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8e.msi instead of the version without ssl. It works! so I suppose my choice won’t mess up things?

By: David

David — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:00:21 +0000

The quality of the all-in-one packages has improved in recent years, so a lot of people use them. The main reason for their emergence was the complexity of setting up PHP on Windows. That’s now a thing of the past, because there’s an excellent installer for Windows available from the official PHP downloads page.

By: Neoweo

Neoweo — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:26:14 +0000

I use wampserver for my local dev serverstuff because I am lazy. It installs the latest and greatest.
Includes :
- Apache 2.2.6
- MySQL 5.0.45
- PHP 5.2.5

http://www.wampserver.com/en/