i took a look at the install/install.php script - which is large and is
a cludge of code, and it seemed easier to just advise you try the
installer, there isnt much to actually install you see,
i mean if you have problems with systemroot, that sounds like you need
to check your environmental variables.
(win+pause->advanced->environmental variables->systemvariables path)
make sure that
%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\system32\wbem
is there somewhere
%SystemRoot% isnt something used explicitly in any xampp files.
My advice is that this is something you should check on a windows OS
forum, but for now installing apache and php etc.. is easy enough the
"hardest" part being installing them as services, and that aint hard.
After unzipping, you just have to look around for the bat files which
install as service, making sure to turn off IIS and any other services
bound to the ports you want to use.
usually its a oneliner if the batch files dont work - to install apache
as a service just takes:
go into the apache folder
apache -k install
and then to start it
net start Apache2
and so on for mysql filezilla etc..
my advice is not to use the xampp control panel and so on, its a pile
of anyway, and doesnt do anything you cant do using services.msc
It really is as simple as that, no registering dlls, just unzip and
play with the install as service batch scripts if you need to. after
using services to disable IIS admin etc.. that could be bound to port
80.
if you want to set up mod_perl, it is easy to do so, and xampp comes
with 2.2.3 and php5 for 2.2.3 already configured. No real changes need
to go into the conf file.
But beware if you port forward port 80 through yuor router, you might
want to lock down the default aliases, like security, or phpmyadmin
(I would just deny by ip for all but that particular machine and then
delete the default directory structure thats under doc root) and search
for aliases you dont need like "restricted" and kill them.
change the default password for mysql as well, in the db via command
line and inside phpmyadmin conf.
xampp is pretty good, its your system to blame i think
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