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Hosting a test website on a PC may sound tempting – specially to the webmaster who has to maintain a large site online 24×7. It makes life a lot simpler if administrators and site designers have the ability to test look and feel of webpages on a PC before uploading them to a website for the world to see. easyPHP comes in really handy in this situation. With the click of the mouse it installs Apache + PHP + MySQL on the host PC. Once installed it creates a root directory under C:\Program Files\EasyPHP 2.0b1\www. You can load all your pages there and browse to http://localhost/ to see the site.

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Video Install Procedure



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Procedure

  • Install is straightforward. Download and run the installer.
  • When complete create a phpinfo.php file to ensure all required PHP components are present. Code for this file is given below. Then browse to http://localhost/phpinfo.php

    • < ? php
    // Show all information, defaults to INFO_ALL
    phpinfo();
    // Show just the module information.
    // phpinfo(8) yields identical results.
    phpinfo(INFO_MODULES);
    ?>

  • For configuring databases or tuning Apache browse to http://localhost/home You will be greeted with all the different configuration options.
  • For making this site available on the Local_area_network install IIS and point the www directory to the root directory of EasyPHP.