Apache + PHP + mySQL server in your pocket!
This post was published 3 years 5 months 11 days ago and its content may not be valid anymore.If you are a web developer who uses LAMP this IS A MUST!
I was discussing portable apps with a french friend of mine [thank you sebastien] and he pointed out to me some french software called easyPHP. I told him he was crazy and to prove it… a PHP, Apache, mySQL server with phpMyAdmin… in your pocket, and portable to use where ever or whenever the need should arise… this CAN’T be!
Well… I was wrong, after a quick download of the 1.8 installation package I ran the install and pointed the directory to my USB drive… and it worked. In no time I was using calls to localhost and phpInfo().
Get your hands on a copy now… I will forever carry my server in my pocket from now on.
I’ve been using slax (http://www.slax.org) for years to do development. One thing to remember about running a db on a USB drive is the limited number of writes that you get. Granted its in the millions, but many production dbs do that number of transactions in a matter of hours.
Yeah, webserver on a stick (wos) is really good too…I’ve been using it for a long while now…
http://www.chsoftware.net/en/useware/wos/wos.htm
forgot to mention this is windows only.
oh come on, stop the using windows.
well if you find random linux boxes in most locations where you might need to actually use this more power to ya.. however I can’t think of to many laptops/desktops/pay clients computers are running linux… ;)
LAMP = Linux Apache MySQL PHP…Why does there come a Windows application? Another tool I use for Portable Use is XAMPP Lite. has Perl suppert, too. Do you have an idea, if there is something like this, but for linux?