NYCPHP Meetup

[Tim Gales]

> Subject: Re: [nycphp-talk] WAMP on a new XP box with SP2 possible?
> 
> 
> Mitch Pirtle wrote:
> > Folks,
> > 
> > Please help this tired old unix fart with his new laptop.  
> I've tried 
> > for hours, trudged through forums, and even tried XAMPP and several 
> > other WAMP 'easy to install, really!' packages that don't work.
> > 
> > I've opened up port 80 on the firewall (both UDP and TCP), 
> and other 
> > than that have absolutely no idea what it takes to get 
> going on a SP2 
> > box.
> > 
> > Please, can someone end the pain?
> 
> A couple weeks ago, just for grins and giggles I loaded up XAMPP on a 
> box with XP where the college sysadmin had just installed SP2.  Short 
> version, it didn't work.  Since I don't have XP SP2 at home, 
> I haven't 
> had a chance to look into it.  It wouldn't allow loopbacked access to 
> Apache, so it looks like a fairly straightforward SP2 config 
> issue. If 
> you get it working, let us know what you found.
> 

Well, a brave soul (not me) might try an update located at:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?amp;displaylang=en&familyi
d=17d997d2-5034-4bbb-b74d-ad8430a1f7c8&displaylang=en 

It tries to solve some loopback problems with XP2. 

T. Gales & Associates
'Helping People Connect with Technology'

http://www.tgaconnect.com