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10-11-2002, 06:45 PM #1Web Hosting Guru
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Apache installation question
There was a note saying that Windows XP users should download the service pack 1 before installing Apache, is that a necessity? The reason I'm asking is because I'm using a 56K modem and don't want to download 30MB of stuff...Also, there was also a note about a bug.....is that true? The full excerpt is below (from http://www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/):
"Windows XP Apache Users Read This First
If you will install Apache on Windows XP, you must install the Windows XP Service Pack 1. You may obtain that service pack from;
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...p1/default.asp
Additional Warning: we recommend disabling the "Quality of Service" (or QoS) network driver from Microsoft if you are using Apache, since Apache does not support the QoS extensions to the WinSock API.
The original distribution of Windows XP may expose you to a known bug, reported by users of Apache 1.3 and 2.0 on Windows XP. The effects of this bug are particularly observed in conjunction with https SSL/TLS connections, but also occurs in other contexts.
It appears the combination of duplicating file handles between and parent and child process, in conjunction with blocking sends to the http client may result in corrupted output. You may not see corruption in MSIE, which tends to throw any error in the 'Cannot find server or DNS Error' category, rather than explaining the real error or display the corruption. You will only see this corruption over slower links, testing the local loopback (localhost) generally reveals no corruption. This is a potential security risk, since the random, corrupt data served may come from anywhere, such as the cache of buffered file pages containing sensitive data.
If you receive such errors on Windows XP using SSI scripting or PHP scripts, but not static pages, you are probably a victim of this bug. Microsoft initially released a hotfix for the issue, that has been superceeded by the Service Pack 1 release. MSKB article Q317949 addresses this bug."
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10-12-2002, 06:06 AM #2Registered User
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well i installed it on my laptop (HP modified version of XP) and it worked
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10-12-2002, 03:03 PM #3Web Hosting Guru
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With or without the windows XP service pack?
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10-12-2002, 03:27 PM #4Registered User
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without
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10-12-2002, 09:16 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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me too, i'm using apache 1.3.27 on Windows XP without Service Pack and everything seems working good
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10-12-2002, 10:48 PM #6Web Hosting Guru
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okay, thanks!
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10-12-2002, 11:19 PM #7Web Hosting Guru
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Okay, I'm running into problems, in the Apache installation, it says to enter network domain and the server name....is that my domain address? I was confused on that part, so I just assumed it was my domain name. So, I continued on and installed PHP and then I tried testing out my pages......nothing works. I am utterly lost and confused and I feel stupid since everyone claims that installing these things are easy.
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10-13-2002, 08:35 AM #8WHT Addict
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Cant you just use phpdev4? It installs apache, php, mysql with just a couple of clicks. However, if you are going to hosting sites on it you will wanna change some of the settings for apache to make it more secure.
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10-13-2002, 11:10 AM #9Registered User
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just write localhost for that, when you installed php did you add those 3 lines (addaplication..etc) to the apache config file?
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10-17-2002, 03:29 PM #10Newbie
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1) They recommend running the update because of a problem some users have experienced under XP where pages were becoming corrupt whilst loading. There's no real need to update unless you experience the problem
2) As Angel78 said just put localhost for network domain and server name
3) After all that unzip PHP and add the following lines to your httpd.conf (if you are using Apache 2 change it to php4apache2.dll and make sure you change the path to the dll):
LoadModule php4_module c:/apache/php/sapi/php4apache.dll
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
4) Restart Apache and go to http://localhost in your browser and all should work. If you want to test PHP just use:
PHP Code:<?php
phpinfo ( );
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