Installing Apache/osCommerce on XP with IIS

[cjsmiles]

I am considering moving over to osCommerce server. I would like to install Apache Triad with PHP and then osCommerce server on the same XP test machine that I have IIS installed.

 

Are there any problems that may arise from installing Apache web server on the same machine as IIS web server?

[♥Vger]

As both IIS and Apache would use 'localhost' it would be a bit of a nightmare. On its own IIS is a nightmare anyway. I think you'd have to have a dual-boot system if you wanted to run both on one computer.

 

I would recommend ditching IIS altogether, and using the XAMPP all-in-one Apache package - which appears to be more user-friendly than Triad.

 

By default XAMPP runs with php5, so you have the choice of editing admin/includes/classes/upload.php to work with php5, or running the switch_bat file which will roll it back to php4.3.10

 

XAMPP is located at http://www.apachefriends.org/en

 

My own favourite local server is Xitami, but it does not come in an all-in-one package. If you use Xitami then you have to remember to install Xitami first, before installing PHP and MySQL. It's much faster than any other local server.

 

Vger