Configuring Windows98 For Local Dev Page 5

Step Four – Test The Software

• Reboot your machine.
• Go to the DOS prompt (There should be a shortcut on the Windows start
  menu. Stay calm when the screen goes black after clicking – it’s supposed to
  do that)
• Test Apache and PHP: Go to your browser and type this “http://localhost”
  If it worked you’ll see the output of the PHP script saved as the home
  (index.html) page above.
• Any error messages are probably a function of a simple
  error in the php.ini or the httpd.conf file. Check your paths – and check
  to make sure you have the back slahes and forward slashes exactly as
  they are written in the text of this documentation.
• Test MySQL Open another dos window, go to the “C:/mysql/bin”
  directory, and type
  mysqld
  mysqlshow
  mysqlshow -u root mysql
  mysqladmin version status proc
  You should now be logged into the MySQL server.
• Test Perl: Create a test script in your text editor – something like this
  will do:
  !#/PerlbinMSWin32-x86Perl
  print “content-type: text/htmlnn”;
  print “hello”;
  Save this file in the /cgi-bin/ specified under “Configure Apache”
  above.
  
  Point the browser to the new script you just created. Success will yield “hello”
  – any 500 errors will be problems with the shebang line of the script. Make
  sure this is correct if you are having problems with perl.
• Important things to remember:

1. You must run apache first, then MySQL, and any changes made to the apache
   config files in httpd.conf will only take place once your shutdown and
   restart the server.
2. To shut down the server, type “Control-C” from the window
   running Apache.
3. To run perl scripts from the command line in a DOS window, simply go
   to the Windows Explorer menu, associate “.pl” and any other
   extender to the perl.exe program installed above, then type “perl
   script-to-run.pl” from the DOS prompt.

Additional resources if you get stuck:

1. PHP Installation
   Page
2. Clueless
   Lou’s Page for installing Active State Perl with Apache
3. PhpMyAdmin runs great
   locally.