Hello,
I'd like to setup a private web server on my machine which serves local web
browsers, just for learning php...
Is it a good/bad idea? what procedures should I follow in order to setup
everything right?
Thank you
Jack

Jacky wrote:
> I'd like to setup a private web server on my machine which serves local web
> browsers, just for learning php...
> Is it a good/bad idea?

If you are going to use PHP to make web based stuff, then yes it's a good idea
to have Apache with PHP and maybe even MySQL installed.

> what procedures should I follow in order to setup
> everything right?

If you want the easy way, just download a Linux install CD, make an install,
do select to install server version or go into selecting packages to install
and select apache/php/mysql and within 20-30 min you have all you need installed.
No hassle with difficult installers that don't work, all will work from start.

--

//Aho

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:22:49 +0200, J.O. Aho <user@example.net> wrote:

> Jacky wrote:
>> I'd like to setup a private web server on my machine which serves local
>> web
>> browsers, just for learning php...
>> Is it a good/bad idea?
>
> If you are going to use PHP to make web based stuff, then yes it's a
> good idea
> to have Apache with PHP and maybe even MySQL installed.
>
>> what procedures should I follow in order to setup
>> everything right?
>
> If you want the easy way, just download a Linux install CD, make an
> install,
> do select to install server version or go into selecting packages to
> install
> and select apache/php/mysql and within 20-30 min you have all you need
> installed.
> No hassle with difficult installers that don't work, all will work from
> start.

Or if you want to keep the same machine and MS Windows, XAMPP is a nice
package to get everything working pretty quick.
--
Rik Wasmus

My new ISP's newsserver sucks. Anyone recommend a good one? Paying for
quality is certainly an option.

Thank you for answering my questions
Jack

On Sep 1, 12:26 pm, "Jacky" <j...@knight.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd like to setup a private web server on my machine which serves local web
> browsers, just for learning php...
> Is it a good/bad idea? what procedures should I follow in order to setup
> everything right?
> Thank you
> Jack

Congratulations on wanting to get more into PHP - I'm sure you're
going to like it and be successful.

You're on the right track - having a local install of PHP is a great
idea. I currently work on 7 different state based websites for an
insurance company with multiple concurrent projects at a time - I'd
never be able to be as efficient at my development and debugging
without having a local install (WAMP).

Depending on your choice of operating system, both the answers above
are correct. As time progresses, you'll probably want to continue to
customize your PHP install, etc. Feel free to ask any other
questions.

Aaron Saray wrote:
> On Sep 1, 12:26 pm, "Jacky" <j...@knight.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'd like to setup a private web server on my machine which serves local web
>> browsers, just for learning php...
>> Is it a good/bad idea? what procedures should I follow in order to setup
>> everything right?
>> Thank you
>> Jack
>
> Congratulations on wanting to get more into PHP - I'm sure you're
> going to like it and be successful.
>
> You're on the right track - having a local install of PHP is a great
> idea. I currently work on 7 different state based websites for an
> insurance company with multiple concurrent projects at a time - I'd
> never be able to be as efficient at my development and debugging
> without having a local install (WAMP).
>
> Depending on your choice of operating system, both the answers above
> are correct. As time progresses, you'll probably want to continue to
> customize your PHP install, etc. Feel free to ask any other
> questions.
>
I'd want to learn PHP too, I visit this group every now and then
jacky, if maybe we could each other along the way, what do you think?

I'm also wanting to do up a little server-type-thing for my teaching
myself PHP, I so love it and want to teach myself the language too, good
luck!!!

On Sep 5, 9:29 am, Blue_Hat <Bluehatc...@Gmail.com> wrote:
> Aaron Saray wrote:
> > On Sep 1, 12:26 pm, "Jacky" <j...@knight.com> wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >> I'd like to setup a private web server on my machine which serves local web
> >> browsers, just for learning php...
> >> Is it a good/bad idea? what procedures should I follow in order to setup
> >> everything right?
> >> Thank you
> >> Jack
>
> > Congratulations on wanting to get more into PHP - I'm sure you're
> > going to like it and be successful.
>
> > You're on the right track - having a local install of PHP is a great
> > idea. I currently work on 7 different state based websites for an
> > insurance company with multiple concurrent projects at a time - I'd
> > never be able to be as efficient at my development and debugging
> > without having a local install (WAMP).
>
> > Depending on your choice of operating system, both the answers above
> > are correct. As time progresses, you'll probably want to continue to
> > customize your PHP install, etc. Feel free to ask any other
> > questions.
>
> I'd want to learn PHP too, I visit this group every now and then
> jacky, if maybe we could each other along the way, what do you think?
>
> I'm also wanting to do up a little server-type-thing for my teaching
> myself PHP, I so love it and want to teach myself the language too, good
> luck!!!

It's a good start with setting up a local webserver with php and mysql
support
but then you need to get focus on learning it and maybe the best way
is just get directly into the (OOP)
( Object Orientated Programming) of php