While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

Uniform Server is a freeware server solution that lets you easily host a functional website on your Windows PC. It comes packed with Apache, MySQL, Coral, PHP and some other utilities. It is basically ...

There are two places where I do software development for the Web. The first is “out there,” on the Web server for which I pay my monthly hosting fee. The second is “in here,” right on my own desktop, ...

When Bob Hecht joined Informa PLC as its vice president of content strategy, he dreamed of rebuilding the British technical publisher's infrastructure using Linux and open-source technologies. But ...

After installing the XAMPP Control Panel on Windows, many users reported encountering an error while starting Apache. This issue commonly occurs when a process like ...

So I installed WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and MediaWiki. I'd like to backup the MySQL database. Could anyone spare some advice? I can just use mysqldump, right?<BR><BR>One of the ...