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swinnie

swinnie

swinnie

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I want to setup a local machine on my network to use as a development machine for testing websites that I design - but I want to have PHP and MySQL running as well - and I assume Apache too?

Can someone point me in the right direction?

What OS would be best? I have a copy of XP Pro (a spare licence that I have) but I'm open to suggestions.

Thanks

swinnie
 
Use the copy of XP that you have and install XAMPP. That will install Apache, PHP MySQL and a whole host of other things which are useful for development.
 
You might also ant to consider something that runs on Linux so you can have experience with Unix-like environments as well.

Ubuntu Server installs Apache, MySQL, and PHP by default. Almost any other popular server environment is available in a few keystrokes (perl, python, java, etc.). It's a really easy install, which is the point.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
You might also ant to consider something that runs on Linux so you can have experience with Unix-like environments as well.

Ubuntu Server installs Apache, MySQL, and PHP by default. Almost any other popular server environment is available in a few keystrokes (perl, python, java, etc.). It's a really easy install, which is the point.
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I have tried Ubuntu Server before but I couldn't get my head around it.

Do you have any guides that I can refer to?

Thanks.
 
That guide looks just the ticket.

I just couldn't work out what to do with it really - but I am up to learn different things and want to get my head stuck into Linux anyway as I think it is an up-and-coming operating system that we could be seeing a lot more of - especially as the current UK economy is predicted to shrink.

swinnie
 
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