February 2014
Intermediate to advanced
466 pages
16h
English
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Appendix C. Installing PHP and MySQL
To make the SSE Chat application from chapter 4 work, you’ll need to set up a web server with PHP and MySQL. This combination is available free from various online providers, but setting up your own local install will allow you to experiment more freely. In this appendix we’ll walk you through setting up PHP and then MySQL on Windows 7 and Mac OS X Mountain Lion.
C.1. Installing PHP on Windows 7
In this section you’re going to download and install PHP and get it working with Windows’s built-in web server component, Internet Information Services (IIS).
C.1.1. Configuring Windows 7 IIS
IIS is not installed by default in Windows 7 but can be added through the Control Panel option Turn Windows Features On ...