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Author
27 Sep 2006 7:21 AM
tevia
I've installed apache http server 2.2.2 so that I can write dynamic web pages
using dreamweaver 8. I believe the best 'format' to use is php files, for
which i have downloaded the php application server. However I'm clueless
about how to get these programs to run. There is an icon on my taskbar
telling me that 'none out of 1 apache services is running', but if I try and
start it I get an error message stating 'the requested application has
failed'.
If I right-click on the taskbar icon and open my local services window I see
that apache is configured for automatic startup on the local system, but has
not started and if I try start it I get an error message saying look at the
system event log - which tells me nothing.
How do I get this thing to work?
And do I really need the php application server?

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tevia

Author
29 Sep 2006 2:06 AM
Jeffrey Randow
Consider something like WAMP:
http://www.en.wampserver.com/

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Jeffrey Randow
jeffreycen***@gmail.com
Windows Networking MVP 2001-2006

http://www.networkblog.net

..On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 00:21:02 -0700, tevia
<te***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

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>I've installed apache http server 2.2.2 so that I can write dynamic web pages
>using dreamweaver 8. I believe the best 'format' to use is php files, for
>which i have downloaded the php application server. However I'm clueless
>about how to get these programs to run. There is an icon on my taskbar
>telling me that 'none out of 1 apache services is running', but if I try and
>start it I get an error message stating 'the requested application has
>failed'.
>If I right-click on the taskbar icon and open my local services window I see
>that apache is configured for automatic startup on the local system, but has
>not started and if I try start it I get an error message saying look at the
>system event log - which tells me nothing.
>How do I get this thing to work?
>And do I really need the php application server?