• Windows XP Pro - SP2
• Apache 2.2.11 for win32
• ActivePerl 5.10
• PHP 5.2
• MySQL 5.1
• And installed everything on C:\

For those wanting older versions, I have a PHP4, MySQL 4.0, Apache 2.0 tutorial.

These are how-to tutorials to give step by step instructions for installing, setting up, and configuring Apache2 web server, ActivePerl, PHP, and MySQL in Windows. A section is also included that tells you how to make your server accessible to the world, some info on firewalls, and a section on other types of servers (ftp, mail).

I'm not an expert, I'm just someone who saw a need for this tutorial so wrote down the steps I figured out from much trial-and-error. The original "Install Apache on Win32" tutorial I wrote went online November 6, 2000 and started with Apache 1.3.14 running on Windows 95.

While I try to go step-by-step, for these tutorials I am assuming you have a basic understanding of computers and know things like the difference between the "Windows (x86)" version and the "Windows 64-bit (x64)" version of the software (eg; if you are running a 64-bit version of Windows, I'm expecting you to know enough to download the 64-bit version of the software even though my tutorial is based around the 32-bit versions).

1. Installing Apache for Win32
2. Installing Perl into CGI
3. Installing PHP
4. Installing MySQL
5. Releasing your server to the world
6. Other information on security, FTP servers, mail servers
7. FAQ on other info