total server package - will it work?

Sunday 18 December 2005 5:41:00 am

I am about to upgrade from 3.5 to 3.7.
At the same time I am moving my site to another server, with a fresh winxp install.

Instead of going through the hassle of installing all the serverside component programs (php,mysql, apache etc.) I am seriously considering using a precompiled total web server suite. Will any of these work with EZ 3.7 ?

I was thinking of using this one: http://www.devside.net/ Anyone have any experience with this or similar packages?

edit: while waiting for replies, I searched some more - and found XAMPP, which also looks very promising. http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

edit2: bah! tried working with XAMPP for a while, but it proved very hard to alter anything in the predetermined Document Folder. The whole thing seemed very unstable.

Sunday 18 December 2005 3:51:13 pm

I have had linux servers before, but I am simply to used to win interface...

Have been running a stable ez site on a xp server for a year now, but it is now time for upgrading and changing some stuff...

BTW, I am now testing WAMPserver, which seems very promising ;-)

Tuesday 20 December 2005 4:39:51 pm

I'll take this opportunity to plug the completely free AppServ distribution of PHP, Apache and mySQL for Windows. I have used this package to host eZ implementations for years.

It's one of the most popular projects on Sourceforge, if that's any indication of its popularity.

http://www.appservnetwork.com.

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