Open Tech Notes

Infrastructure 1 - LAMP and WAMP

In this "Quick Start" post, I would like introduce my developing environment first. As an open source developer, I believe this part is very important and sometime it is crucial. Ok, long story short, I have four work places:

• Web host
  • Linux (so far, I don’t what distribution and version it is)
  • Apache 1.3.37
  • PHP 5.1.6
  • MySQL 5.0. 24

This configuration is out of my control, The web host told me that I only have two choices, php4 package or php5 package. For the sake of the requirement of Zend Framework, I have to choose php5. That means I have no choice. BTW, a lot of web hosts still use Apache 1.3.37, the last stable version of Apache Version 1, so does mine.

• My host
  • Fedora Core 3
  • Apache 1.3.37
  • PHP 5.1.6
  • MySQL5.0.24

This is the Linux server that is running at my home. All configurations keep the same with the web host except the Linux distribution and version. Because of two reasons:

• I don’t know what Linux box my web host uses
• Before I upload my application into my web host, I use this as my final test bed
• Dev1
  • Windows XP Pro SP2
  • Apache 2.0.59
  • PHP 5.1.6
  • MySQL 4.1.13
• Dev2
  • Windows XP Home SP2
  • Apache 1.3.37
  • PHP 5.1.6
  • MySQL 5.0.26

I intentionally use diversified version of WAMP(Windows,Apache, MySQL, PHP. This is my invention. By far,I’ve not found anyone uses it ,(sorry, when I do a google search, there are a lot of WAMP, I am not the first person use it, update Nov 17, 2006 ) on my Windows boxes because I want to see if my applications are robust.
Note: Zend PlatForm 2.2.2/2.2.3 can not work with PHP 5.2.0 under windows XP,you may download php 5.1.6 from here