Comments on: Portable Local WebServer with Apache, SQL, PHP and Applications for Windows

By: John McLendon

John McLendon — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:41:51 +0000

How do I install “wos” onto an external drive (i.e. G:/)? I am running Windows Vista Home Premium (X32).

By: Yohan Perera

Yohan Perera — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:54:52 +0000

Dear Ray,

The link you have mentioned is not working….

By: Matz36

Matz36 — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:52:23 +0000

Hmm i use this simple webserver with PHP integration. It’s enough for me.
mwiede.de/windows-php-webserver/

By: ch1zra

ch1zra — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:11:22 +0000

checkoxes and buttons”Cancel” and “Install” are unclickable…

using ffox 3.0.6

By: me

me — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 03:27:22 +0000

link is broke

By: Rick

Rick — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:25:28 +0000

Hello. I just wanted to know how I run, let’s sat, a PHP script using this. Should I upload it to the root directory? Then what? How is it run? I already tried that and double clicked the index.php of the script and the notepad text editor opened instead.

I tried with the Web Developer Package and with UsbWebserver and the same happened. What I’m I doing wrong?

Any help will be appreciated.

Rick

By: hydr

hydr — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:05:32 +0000

Well, I did get it to run after quite some effort. This might help some of you:

I was getting the same old.dir error \”cannot write to old.dir\”, but like Odie said, I deleted the file………another error \”old.dir not found\”……then I created a blank old.dir and the installation proceeded to completion.

Now, I started wos, but both mysql & apache weren\’t working. it turned out that I had previously installed xampp on my pc, which installs its mysql instance as a service. The service was running [even though xampp wasn\'t] and so Wos couldn\’t start its mysql instance. I just stopped the mysql service and then set its startup type to \’manual\’ [in Administrative Tools>Services].

With apache the problem was that IIS was installed and running on my machine, so I had to stop it from Administrative Tools>Internet Information Services. After that Apache ran fine.

Now there is another issue…….Almost all of the apps [wordpress, phpbb, oscommerce, joomla, drupal, etc] that come with Wos are supposed to be installed by default…or they should get installed on first run….But they are NOT installed. Worse, the install folders are renamed so the installation does not start automatically when you access them the first time [eg. taking the example of phpBB3, when you type localhost/wos/phpbb3 in the address bar of the browser, it should start installation...but it gives an error. Here two things need to be done:
1. You need to create a new mysql database named phpbb from within phpmyAdmin [localhost/wos/phpmyadmin].
2. You need to rename the installation folder back to its original name as initially the installation folder will be named something like c:\\wos\\www\\phpBB3\\install.bak, you need to change the name of the folder to c:\\wos\\www\\phpbb3\\install.
Now you can start installation of phpbb3 by going to localhost/wos/phpbb3/install/.

Same goes for most of the other apps that come with wos……..create db first, then rename the install folder, then start installation.

Hope this is helpful.