Friday, August 12, 2005
Server Up & Running
Well, I spend the whole day getting my Windows Web Server running again. I could've had it running in moments, but I decided to do some upgrades ... Apache 1.3 -> 2.0 ... PHP 4.2.3 -> 5.0.1 (or something like that anyway). Had some initial problems with MySQL as PHP doesn't come bundled w/ it by default anymore. The stupid error message talked about php_mysql.dll file, but the problem was actually libmysql.dll ... pretty gay ... thank god for google.
Anyway, I had to increase the buffer size of everything, but it seems to be working so far. I updated all the pathing using chdir('../') instead of hardcoding it with a define('VAR',/path') as that doesn't cross well from a Linux box -> Windows.
I also played with my laptop and talked to Dell. With XP re-installed, the USB ports work, so the only thing left is to figure out why the screen keeps dying. Dell says it's often caused by a power surge. Sure enough, an hour after talking 2 the support, the screen died ... so, I did the recommended steps and got it back up. However, if this happens on a regular basis, I'm going to send it back.
Well, that's been my day. My bro is coming up w/ his kids to do some work with me on his site, so it should be an interesting wknd.
Anyway, I had to increase the buffer size of everything, but it seems to be working so far. I updated all the pathing using chdir('../') instead of hardcoding it with a define('VAR',/path') as that doesn't cross well from a Linux box -> Windows.
I also played with my laptop and talked to Dell. With XP re-installed, the USB ports work, so the only thing left is to figure out why the screen keeps dying. Dell says it's often caused by a power surge. Sure enough, an hour after talking 2 the support, the screen died ... so, I did the recommended steps and got it back up. However, if this happens on a regular basis, I'm going to send it back.
Well, that's been my day. My bro is coming up w/ his kids to do some work with me on his site, so it should be an interesting wknd.
# posted by AllCdnBoy @ 5:19 PM 
