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Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:52 pm
by volka
I was just accepting what they said ...
But you have a development sysytem there ;)
Can I install XAMPP with Apache, MySQL, and PHP already installed on my system?
yes and no. It can install the files side-by-side. But (without further configuration) you can run only one instance of each server at a time - and you probably only want one instance.
Anyway, the question "xampp yes/no?" really is the question "do I want to bother with the installation and basic configuration of apache,php,mysql etc?". The answer might be "yes" and the reason might be "spent too much time to set it up" ;) That's fine with me. Only your current apache/php installation behaves weird; therefore the suggestion to quick-test with xampp.

btw: did you make the necessary changes in your php.ini?
call <?php phpinfo(); ?>
What does is say about the parameters
upload_tmp_dir
error_reporting
display_errors
and display_startup_errors ?