The Joys of AMP on WinXP SP2

Author: Keith

6 Nov

So what’s AMP?

Apache, MySQL & PHP.

Why so joyous? Because it’s soooooo easy to upgrade them that even a kid could do it!
I’ll leave the decision of whether or not their is a hint of sarcasm in that statement up to you

Honestly…. I don’t care what anyone says… it’s not all gravy. I spent the best part of ten hours upgrading today. I won’t go into the details because you probably won’t bother reading it anyway. But, if you are a web developer and are having problems installing Apache, MySQL & PHP on Windows XP SP2 feel free to give me a shout. I’ll try my best to help you out.

At least now I can get back to coding

Oh by the way, the versions I upgraded to are Apache 2.0.52, MySQL 4.0.22 and PHP5.0.2

Filed under: Technology, Web Programming

2 Responses for "The Joys of AMP on WinXP SP2"

Leonardo November 10th, 2004 at 5:14 pm 1
Hi,
I can´t install Apache 2.0.52 on my WinXp SP2. I want to learn web programming, so i interested in Apache, MySQL andPHP. Can you help me? The problem is that Apache doesn´t run as a service, there is a Apache2 file missing. I installed the patch from MS (KB884020).
Thank you, L.
Keith November 11th, 2004 at 7:19 pm 2
Hi Leonardo,

Which Apache 2 file did you download and install?