It seems some people were a bit confused when it came to installing PHP5 on Windows Server 2008 using FastCGI. So to make things clearer, I’ve made a little video to show you how I’ve done it. Take note that this WILL NOT WORK on other versions of Windows than this one. I hope this [...]

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I’ve just installed Sphider, a free PHP search engine, on this very website. I thought that WordPress’ search function lacked a lot of features like indexing content outside the blog itself, advanced search capabilities, etc. I used to use phpDig a lot but it’s been a long time since an update has been made available. [...]

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I have just got off HostGator‘s live chat support. I gotta say I was quite surprised by the fact that they provide such a quick and efficient service. I spoke with Matthew S. from HostGator’s technical support team, he was very kind and professional. I asked him about having PHP5 enabled on my account instead of [...]

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Now that we have installed PHP 5 on IIS 7 successfully, we’re going to install MySQL Server 5.1. First of all, get yourself a copy of the MySQL Server 5.1 ZIP Setup from http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.1/mysql-5.1.22-rc-win32.zip/from/pick#mirrors Extract all the files from the archive and launch Setup.exe I’ve chosen to use the Typical Setup but feel free to [...]

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Following up on my last post, I’ve now got a working IIS 7 web server running on Windows 2008. We’re now going to install PHP5 and MySQL 5.1. Installing PHP5 on IIS 7 First of all, grab yourself a copy of PHP over at http://www.php.net/downloads.php. I always use the zip package, I never use the [...]

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I’ve just got myself an evaluation copy of Windows 2008 Server out of curiosity. I’ve installed it on VMware Workstation 6 running on a Windows Vista computer. While a virtualized Windows 2008 Server is a sucker on resource, it’s performance is still acceptable for those who just want to try it out like me. Let’s see how to [...]

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I’d like to add a little something about the CentOS 5.0 Perfect Setup. After following carefully each instruction step-by-step, I noticed that at least two PHP extensions were missing: php-mcrypt and php-mbstring.

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