Unfortunately I haven’t seen any good web hosting control panel for Apache on Windows (if you know some, leave a comment!). So that’s why we’re going to need something else to manage the MySQL server. MySQL provides a set of GUI tools that allows you to perform such tasks as managing databases, managing database users, [...]

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In the third part of this tutorial, we’re now going to install PHP 5 on Windows. In the two previous posts, we’ve seen how to install Apache and MySQL on a Windows computer so you you should already have a working web server and database server.

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This is the second part of our tutorial on how to install your own home web server. In the first, you’ve seen how to install Apache HTTP Server on Windows. Now we’re going to see how to install MySQL, a free database server. MySQL comes in two flavors: Enterprise Edition and the MySQL Community Server. [...]

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Sometimes I like to have my own web server, whether it is for testing or development purposes. Since I use Windows XP or Vista on my personnal computer, my favorite setup is Windows, Apache, PHP and MySQL. This setup is also known as WAMP. And maybe you guessed it, the Linux equivalent of this setup [...]

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Whether you’re running a virtual or dedicated web server, you want to squeeze as much juice as you can out of it. Apache’s HTTPD server has the possibility to use compression when it sends data to a web browser. The compression algorithms work particularly well on text data like HTML, CSS and Javascript but compressing [...]

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