apache,mysql,php on winXP

guys,

does anyone have installed apache, mysql and php on winXP ? pls do advice , since my new notebook is pre installed with winxp home edition.

I am thinking to downgrade to win2k, but before that, is apache on XP is as easy as on win2k ?

thanks

I have all of these installed on win xp - and it is on my notebook which is a coincedence.

I have had no problems with XP home that I wouldnt have had on Win2K. All is Running perfectly at the min!

The only advantage I can see downgrading to win2k is the extra networking functionallity, but you can install some of these extra functions onto home edition. Although if you were to serve to an Intranet you would probably be using a NOS anyway!

I'm running Windows XP Pro with Apache 2.0.4.3 and MySQL 3.23.53 and PHP 4.30RC1 on my laptop. No problems at all (Well, actually, Apache crashes a fair bit on phpMyAdmin and also on vBulletin Admin CP, but nothing that causes me to lose data, since the server instantly restarts). I put it down to the fact that I'm using the latest version and a development version of PHP etc, but if anyone has any thoughts on increasing stability I'd love to hear them.

I wrote my "installing apache, mysql and php" article on a windows xp machine without any problems. It only took me about 5 minutes to get everything going.

thanks, apache is up with php4, downloading the big mysql ....

Got troubles running v-hosts on WinXP Media Center (same as ProSP2, if I'm right). Configs seem to work fine, but when it comes to browser--there's no connection. Looks like theres no such server name or IP. Browser respondes the same thing again and again: "Connection time out when trying to access www.mydomain.com".

P.S>.>when pinging IP it respondes, but says that IP is 127.0.0.1, no matter what adress was ?!

Please, help a newbee, best regards, SergeyK

I installed php/apache2/mysql to an XP MCE without any problem, but when trying to display .php scripts, like phpinfo(), IE6 didn't create a window to display any information. There wasn't any error messages from logs. Anybody has any idea what might have caused this?

Hey Sergey,
just wondering - have you found a decision for problem you described. I got the same case - my head being broken for last two days. I installed Apche/php/perl/mysql servers very often- but mainly on XP Pro os. But a few days ago i decided to install it on my laptop - and got same problems.
Only 127.0.0.1 works.

Thanks in advance.