I going to assume you are installing PHP, APACHE, MySql and the MySql administrator GUI tools on a Windows box. (You haven’t specified windows, linux, apache or IIS, so lets go with that). Follow this to the letter, and pay particular attention to the part about installing php from the zip file and not the installer. There is a good reason for it. I used this as a guide on a windows box several months ago. It worked then. You will obviously want to stop at the point where it says “At this this stage the WAMP stack is up and running, congratulations!”
good luck.
http://oss.segetech.com/wamp.html
I am looking for step by step installation instructions for:
1. PHP on Windows 2003 / IIS6. I don’t need to install Apache as I am already running a webserver.
2. MySql
3. WordPress
What is the reasoning behind not using the PHP Windows Installer?
http://theserverpages.com/php/manual/en/install.windows.php#install.windows.installer
“The installer does not include any extra external PHP extensions (php_*.dll) as you’ll only find those in the Windows Zip Package and PECL downloads….
….Note: While the Windows installer is an easy way to make PHP work, it is restricted in many aspects as, for example, the automatic setup of extensions is not supported. Use of the installer isn’t the preferred method for installing PHP.”
