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VM Ware

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If most people are like me I hate installing software that changes a lot of start up files and alters the behavior of my computer. I am currently working on a PHP/MySQL site and had to create a localhost development environment. So, rather than install all this on my PC or my laptop I created a VM Ware virtual machine.

I bought VMWare Workstation and had an extra copy of Windows XP. I then downloaded Apache 2.0 PHP 5, and MySQL and loaded and configured them on the Virtual XP OS. It works great. I then added the Macromedia Studio 8, and was off and running. I can even test my websites on another computer by navigating to localhost/devsite.

It works for me, but the software was a little steep.

Arnold


Posted in Flash, MySQL, PHP, Software, Web Servers on November 12th, 2006

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