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Making phpBB2 working with PHP5

Officially, phpBB 2 (as of this writing, up to version 2.0.17) is not supporting PHP 5. If you install PHP 5, and use it to run phpBB, you will encounter the following symptoms and errors: You cannot post message – When you want to post new topic or reply to a topic, after writing your message, when you click “Submit”, a blank page or screen […]

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ppStream – P2P based Streaming Media (P2P Internet TV)

Introduction to ppStream and P2P TV PPstream is a software that allows to view a streaming audio video media (i.e. TV channels) based on BitTorrent Peer to Peer (P2P) technology.

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Using phpMyAdmin for Effective MySQL Management in Windows XP

Introduction to phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is a open source, web-based client that can manage a whole MySQL server (needs a super-user) as well as a single database. It supports PHP5 and MySQL 4.1.

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Install phpBB 2 in Windows XP running on Apache 2, PHP 5 and MySQL 4

Introduction to phpBB phpBB is a high powered, fully scalable, and highly customizable Open Source bulletin board package. phpBB has a user-friendly interface, simple and straightforward administration panel, and helpful FAQ. To run phpBB, powerful PHP server language needs to be enabled on web server and installed any one of the following database: MySQL, MS-SQL, PostgreSQL or Access/ODBC database servers.

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Check Oracle Version

There are several ways where you can query or retrieve the version number of installed Oracle products: 1. If you just want to check the version information of the Oracle database, simply connect and login to the Oracle database with SQL *Plus. Upon login, you will see:

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Install AWStats- Free Logfile Analyzer for Site Statistics

Prerequisite As AWStats is Perl based, a Perl Interpreter need to be installed first to take anvantage of AWStats. For instruction on how to install Perl in Windows machine, check out this article.

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Install, Setup and Configure CGI and Perl in Windows XP

Prerequisite Obvioulsy, a web server needs to be running on the Windows machine. Refer to this post for instructions on how to install Apache2 in Windows.

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Install Web Server in Windows XP with Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL4 – Part 4

Part 4 – Install MySQL 4.1 Run the MySQL Essentials Installation package setup.exe that downloaded in Part 1. Follow on screen instruction for the whole installation. Halfway into the installation, choose the installation path you want. Anywhere is fine, but recommended to install inside the Apache2 root level (i.e. C:\Server\mysql).

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Install Web Server in Windows XP with Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL4 – Part 3

Part 3 – Install PHP 5 Unzip the PHP zip package that downloaded in Part 1 to C:\PHP (Create a new folder named PHP at C:\ root level). Then shut down Apache server.

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Install Web Server in Windows XP with Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL4 – Part 2

Part 2 – Install Apache 2 Run the Apache Windows Installer that downloaded in Part 1. The installation is easy, just follow the on screen instruction.

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Install Web Server in Windows XP with Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL4 – Part 1

Part 1 – Downloading Apache2, PHP5 and MySQL4 Binaries Apache 2: Download Win32 Binary (MSI Installer) Donwload the msi installation version of Apache 2, which ended with extension .msi.

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