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34 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQLHowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2HowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2The PHP configuration process is extremely sophisticated, enabling you to control many aspects of PHP’s behavior. To see a complete list of available options, use the command ./configure --help, and visit http://www.php.net/manual/en/configure.php for detailed explanations of what each option does. 7. Next, compile and install PHP using make and make install:[root@host]# make[root@host]# make installFigure 2-7 illustrates what you might see during the compilation process.PHP should now be installed to /usr/local/php5/. 8. The next step in the installation process consists of configuring Apache to correctly recognize requests for PHP pages. This is accomplished by opening the Apache configuration file, httpd.conf (which is found in the conf/ subdirectory of the Apache installation directory), in a text editor and adding the following line to it.AddType application/x-httpd-php .php FIGURE 2-6 Configuring the PHP source treech02.indd 34 2/2/05 3:06:32 PMTEAM LinG HowTo8 (8) CHAPTER 2: Setting Up a PHP-MySQL Development Environment 35HowTo8 (8) 9. Save the changes to the file. Also, check to make sure this line appears somewhere in the file:LoadModule php5_module libexec/libphp5.soThe PHP installation process should automatically add this line to the file, but it has been known to fail. If you don’t see it, add it yourself. 10. Start the Apache server by manually running the apachectl script.[root@host]# /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl startApache should start up normally. Figure 2-8 demonstrates what you will see as the server starts up.Once installation is successfully completed and the server has started, move down to the section entitled “Testing Apache and PHP” to verify that all is functioning as it should.Installing on WindowsCompiling applications on Windows is a challenging process, especially for novice developers. With this in mind, it is advisable for Windows users to focus instead on installing and configuring prebuilt binary releases of MySQL, PHP, and Apache, FIGURE 2-7 Compiling PHP2ch02.indd 35 2/2/05 3:06:32 PMTEAM LinG 36 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2 / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2instead of attempting to compile them from source code. These releases can be downloaded from the web sites listed in the previous section. They are to be installed one after another, as outlined in the following subsections.Installing MySQLThe binary distribution of MySQL for Windows comes with an automated installer, which enables you to get MySQL up and running on your Windows system in just a few minutes. 1. Log in as an administrator (if you’re using Windows NT or Windows 2000) and unzip the distribution archive to a temporary directory on your system. After extraction, your directory should look something like Figure 2-9. 2. Double-click the setup.exe file to begin the installation process. You should see a welcome screen (Figure 2-10). 3. Select the directory in which MySQL is to be installed, for example, c:\program files\mysql\ (Figure 2-11). FIGURE 2-8 Apache server startup messagesch02.indd 36 2/2/05 3:06:32 PMTEAM LinG HowTo8 (8) CHAPTER 2: Setting Up a PHP-MySQL Development Environment 37HowTo8 (8) FIGURE 2-9 The directory structure created on unpackaging a MySQL binary distribution for Windows FIGURE 2-10 Beginning MySQL installation on Windows2ch02.indd 37 2/2/05 3:06:32 PMTEAM LinG 38 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQLHowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2HowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2 FIGURE 2-11 Selecting the MySQL installation directory 4. Select the type of installation required (Figure 2-12). Most often, a Typical Installation will do. If you’re the kind who likes tweaking default settings, however, or if you’re short of disk space, select the Custom Installation option, and decide which components of the package should be installed (Figure 2-13). 5. MySQL should now begin installing to your system (Figure 2-14). 6. Once installation is complete, you should see a screen like Figure 2-15.You should now be able to start the MySQL server by diving into the bin\ subdirectory of your MySQL installation and launching the WinMySQLadmin tool (winmysqladmin.exe). This tool provides a graphical user interface to MySQL configuration, and is by far the simplest way to configure MySQL on Windows systems.The first time you start WinMySQLadmin, you will be asked for the name and password of the user the server should run as (Figure 2-16).Once this information is entered, WinMySQLadmin will automatically create the MySQL configuration file (named my.ini) and populate it with appropriate values for your system. You can edit these values at any time using the my.ini Setup section of the WinMySQLadmin application (see Figure 2-17).ch02.indd 38 2/2/05 3:06:33 PMTEAM LinG HowTo8 (8) CHAPTER 2: Setting Up a PHP-MySQL Development Environment 39HowTo8 (8) FIGURE 2-12 Selecting the MySQL installation type FIGURE 2-13 Selecting components for a custom MySQL installation2ch02.indd 39 2/2/05 3:06:33 PMTEAM LinG 40 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQLHowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2HowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2You can also start the MySQL server by directly launching the mysqld.exe or mysqld-nt.exe binaries from the bin\ subdirectory of your MySQL installation. FIGURE 2-14 MySQL installation in progress FIGURE 2-15 MySQL installation successfully completedch02.indd 40 2/2/05 3:06:33 PMTEAM LinG HowTo8 (8) CHAPTER 2: Setting Up a PHP-MySQL Development Environment 41HowTo8 (8) FIGURE 2-16 Setting the WinMySQLadmin username and password FIGURE 2-17 Editing MySQL configuration on Windows via WinMySQLadmin2ch02.indd 41 2/2/05 3:06:34 PMTEAM LinG 42 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQLHowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2HowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2Once the server has started, WinMySQLadmin will minimize to a green icon in your Windows taskbar notification area. You can now proceed to test the server, as described in the section “Testing MySQL,” to ensure that everything is working as it should.You can bring the WinMySQLadmin application back to the foreground at any time by right-clicking its taskbar icon and selecting the Show Me option from the menu that pops up (see Figure 2-18).Installing ApacheOnce MySQL is installed, the next step is to install the Apache Web server. On Windows, this is a point-and-click process, similar to that used when installing MySQL. 1. Begin by double-clicking the Apache installer to begin the installation process. You should see a welcome screen (Figure 2-19). 2. Read the license agreement and accept the terms to proceed (Figure 2-20). 3. Read the descriptive information and proceed to enter basic server information and the e-mail address to be displayed on error pages (Figure 2-21). 4. Select the type of installation required (Figure 2-22). If you like, select the Custom Installation option to decide which components of the package should be installed (Figure 2-23). 5. Select the location to which Apache should be installed, for example, c:\program files\apache group\ (Figure 2-24). FIGURE 2-18 Using the WinMySQLadmin system tray iconch02.indd 42 2/2/05 3:06:34 PMTEAM LinG HowTo8 (8) CHAPTER 2: Setting Up a PHP-MySQL Development Environment 43HowTo8 (8) FIGURE 2-19 Beginning Apache installation on Windows FIGURE 2-20 Apache licensing terms2ch02.indd 43 2/2/05 3:06:34 PMTEAM LinG . 34 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQLHowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/ Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2HowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything. 40 How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQLHowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything with PHP & MySQL/ Vaswani/225795-4/Chapter 2HowTo8 (8) / How to Do Everything