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[nycphp-talk] Installing PHP/MySQL on in-house MS server

B.A.S. lists at nopersonal.info
Tue Jan 15 10:43:11 EST 2008


Daniel Convissor wrote:
> Installing MySQL on Windows is pretty easy and can be done securely.  An 
> important factor is setting it up the MySQL service to run as a 
> non-privileged user.  My MySQL Basics tutorial page gives you step by 
> step instructions on how to do that:
> 
> http://www.analysisandsolutions.com/code/mysql-tutorial.htm
> 
> Same kind of drill with Apache -- run the service under a non-privileged 
> user.  Though you _can_ skip Apache by running PHP under IIS if they're 
> crazy enough to use that.
> 
> But I'm a fan of getting someone else to manage the servers.  One less 
> thing for me to worry about.

Great info--thanks!

Bev



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