[WBEL-users] Easy to kickstart

[Christian Huegel]

Dave Nuttall wrote:
> Yesterday I posted a “plea” for collaboration on making a WBEL minimal 
> install run the latest and greatest Apache/MySQL and PHP/Perl.  One 
> person responded with a question as to WHY I needed to run MySQL 4.x.  
> The answer was/is that I’m interested in the spatial data features.
> 
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> 
> While cruising the many forums, blogs and posts about how to get a 
> leading edge LAMP environment, I found some short postings that asked 
> “why bother to roll your own when there is such a good package that does 
> it all”…and like many of “us” I rolled my eyes and said “yeah, right” to 
> myself.
> 
>  
> 
> But then I made a life-changing move:  I actually found the referenced 
> package, downloaded it and unpacked it on my WBEL minimal install 
> machine and “voila”….an absolutely marvelous working copy of Apache 
> 2.0.52, MySQL 4.0.21, PHP4 and PHP5 and all the related and neat 
> features included such as SSL, gd-2.x, etc.
> 
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> 
> Its called “XAMPP for Linux” and can be found on Sourceforge or via 
> their website in Germany as http://www.apachefriends.org 
> <http://www.apachefriends.org/>.
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> I’m hoping to get access to a “development version” of XAMPP, but as I 
> post this, their link (via Sourceforge) seems to be broken.   I’m sure I 
> can and will learn a bunch from these fine people in Germany.  Check 
> them out.
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> 
> Please contact me off-line if you wish to collaborate.  It only took a 
> couple minutes to make XAMPP work and a mere 5 more to make it 
> start/stop during boot/reboot.
> 
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> 
> Best regards from San Antonio, TX
> 
> Dave
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> 
Hi Dave,


just quoting from the project website:

"...As mentioned before, XAMPP is not meant for production use but only 
for developers in a development environment..."

So, XAMMP is just a nice toy, and like the developers said, never use it 
in an production environment (ProFTP is one reason; just askin' why they 
include it in XAMPP).
To be honest, who is using WBEL as a workstation anyway?


Have a nice day,

Christian