NYCPHP Meetup

[Paul A Houle]

David Mintz wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Anthony Wlodarski 
> <ant92083 at gmail.com <mailto:ant92083 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     I would never recommend that on Ubuntu or a Debain package based
>     systems.  Use "sudo tasksel" and then select "LAMP Server". 
>     Tasksel is a package management tool for the meta packages that
>     point to the most recent version of the software that exists in
>     the stack.  That way you don't have to piece together PHP5, MySQL,
>     and Apache and their latest versions.  Since learning about
>     tasksel I have been loving Ubuntu 9.10 server edition and rolling
>     out new instances.
>
    Maybe I'm old fashioned,  but I still install my server stack with 
the old

./configure
make
make install

on both Linux and Mac machines.  It certainly makes your machine grind 
for a while,  but it's not very intellectually challenge.  It seems like 
I often need to compile something a little weird into my PHP,  and I 
like the level of control over the configuration I get.

    Now when I want to mess with the "AMP" stack on Windows,  I use 
XAMPP these days.  I've never gotten around to figuring out how to build 
the AMP stack on Windows.