Moving the location of PHP on your hard drive

• July 1, 2006
• James Skemp

In this article, we'll be moving our installation of PHP 4.4.2 from c:\php\ to c:\php4\. We'll be doing this primarily because we may like the ability to run multiple versions of PHP at one time, on our development server. This will pave the way for our future installation of PHP 5.1.4 (or the current version of PHP 5.x). The added benefit is that we'll have an idea of just how many documents are involved in a relatively simple change.

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Upgrading phpMyAdmin (2.7.0-pl2 to 2.8.1) on a local, Windows-based, Apache server

• June 20, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous post, we installed phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl2 to our local Web server. We did this so that we would have an easy way to administer our MySQL databases, from a PHP-based interface. This time, we'll be upgrading phpMyAdmin to version 2.8.1.

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Upgrading to Zend Optimizer 3.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• June 8, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we installed Zend Optimizer 2.6.2 to a local Windows-based Apache 1.x server, running PHP 4.4.2. This time, we'll be upgrading Zend Optimizer from 2.6.2 to 3.0.1. Downloading and backups First, we'll need to download a copy from http://www.zend.com/products/zend_optimizer/. We've already setup an account when we downloaded 2.6.2, so we can simply log in. Of course, if you've forgotten your password you can request assistance, and if you haven't downloaded Zend Optimizer before, you can setup an account.

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Creating a Microsoft Management Console for our local Windows-based, Apache server

• June 3, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous tutorials, we discussed how to access the Services control panel from Windows. In this tutorial, we'll be setting up a custom console that will provide us an easy way to access both our Services control panel, an Event Viewer, as well as other management tools.

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Upgrading (our local install of) ActivePerl

• May 26, 2006
• James Skemp

In a previous guide, we walked through installing ActivePerl on a local machine. This time, we'll be upgrading ActivePerl. For this guide, we'll be upgrading from ActivePerl 5.8.7.815 to 5.8.8.817. However, since the installation requires the uninstallation of previous versions of ActivePerl, we'll simply be installing a new version of ActivePerl. If you have not installed Perl before, you can skip ahead to "Installing Perl" below. Please note that this guide will work equally well for the installation of, or upgrade to, ActivePerl 5.

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Installing mod_perl on a local Windows-based, Apache server

• April 8, 2006
• James Skemp

The home page of mod_perl gives a great explanation of what mod_perl is, and what it provides. We'll be installing mod_perl simply because it will help us install other functionality as time goes by.

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Using a standard template to create a simple Web site

• April 2, 2006
• James Skemp

As stated in a previous article, there's a site, http://blog.html.it/layoutgala/, that offers free templates. Using these templates, you can easily create a site, so long as you have the content you need to fill the pages.

In this article, we'll be putting some content into one of these templates, Layout 34, but we can use the methods we discuss here on any of the templates.

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Installing ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server

• March 31, 2006
• James Skemp

Note: For information on updating to ColdFusion MX 7.0.2, see Upgrading our installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 on a local Windows-based, Apache, server. Update: October 10, 2006 @ 7:11 pm - Thanks to Michael Bryce for his helpful comments regarding this documentation. In this article, we'll be walking through an installation of ColdFusion MX 7.0.1, Developer's Edition. Since we've already covered the installation of ColdFusion MX 6.1, Developer's Edition, you may already have CFMX 6.

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'Just enough HTML to be dangerous'

• March 27, 2006
• James Skemp

This time, we'll be covering the minimum HTML knowledge required to be truly dangerous. While an expanded understanding of HTML is not, per se, required, having at least some understanding will help in a number of ways. Of course, the more HTML you know, the less you rely on tools to do the work (which is a good thing, since we're not always able to use the tools that we're familar with).

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Web site development: Content and Audience

• March 25, 2006
• James Skemp

There’s two major topics that come up when you’re talking with someone who wants to create a Web site, and they have a number of questions revolving around them. This article will be discussing these two major topics - content and audience - and raise the major questions that must be answered. Content is obviously one of the major topics because that’s what a Web site is - the display of content.

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