After reading through various pages, and this group's archive, it's
unclear whether Vista is a nightmare or not, as regards to installing
and running MySQL - as well as PHP and Apache.

I'd rather not ever use Vista, but then again it's destined to become
the standard. Though I'd never 'upgrade' to Vista, on a new computer
it is probably something to think about.

Is there a consensus here, as regards Vista with MySQL, and also with
PHP and Apache?

On Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:23:46 -0700, Herb <herb_k@mail.com>
wrote:

>After reading through various pages, and this group's archive, it's
>unclear whether Vista is a nightmare or not, as regards to installing
>and running MySQL - as well as PHP and Apache.
>
>I'd rather not ever use Vista, but then again it's destined to become
>the standard. Though I'd never 'upgrade' to Vista, on a new computer
>it is probably something to think about.
>
>Is there a consensus here, as regards Vista with MySQL, and also with
>PHP and Apache?

I installed xampp ( http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html )
on Vista Ultimate, and it runs without a problem (for local use,
that is).
I would advise to stay away from %ProgramFiles%, %ProgramData%
and %USERPROFILE%, usually C:\Program Files\, C:\ProgramData\
and C:\users\<accountname> respectively. Also, don't copy any
DLLs to %windir% (C:\WINDOWS\) or its subdirectories.

It is better to install everything in C:\xampp\ or
C:\bin\xampp\.
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