Madkat

okay, yay, thanks a lot guys for all your help. i just turned off the security, as olajideolaolorun said and now everything works. this is fun now that it works :-) thanks again, Madkat

yay it works... kind of... well, somewhat anyway, havnt fully tested it yet... but it turns on and off. btw, i had uninstalled the previous version of apache... just hadnt removed that stupid file. anyway... it loaded up fine and added the stuff and so on. one problem... new error when i clicked "run mysql server" and when i tried that link... it didnt exist... although thats kind of obvious... otherwise i wouldnt be posting x_x

wow... okay... well, i just tried 3.2 and the good news is that Stop.bat does work now... only... there are 4 other problems that now exist... i copied them word for word: the first line is the title of the alert box thing and the second is the content (obviously). i kind of understand what it means... but at the same time no idea. i'll poke around and see what i cant come up with. might even try 3.1 oh yeah, this computer: XP Home Edition (stupid firewall prohibits every little detail) AMD Duron Processor 1.21GHz, 512 mb ram Norton Internet Security 2003 (very annoying) if you need anything else... just ask.. but if i cant get 3.2 working, im just going to wait to see what you guys say.

okay... i lied... im back... i did a little experimenting with my computer and my dads (much newer) and his took to apache np, but when i tried to install for my computer, everything went screwy... so im pretty damn sure now that its my computer, nothing to do with your software... anyway, i dont know why i posted this before i tested it.. but i'll let you know of the results.

well [edit]MrX, you were making sense for a while there mrx but now im lost entirely. away, i found a simpler alternative through http://www.apache.org figured it would be simpler on me to get a pre-configured installer and to just turn the entire computer, or something like that anyway... although not nearly as obvious as where to put the website itself... but i'll figure it out. anyway thanks for taking your time to help me and ill definately be back once i get a better computer. thanks a bunch, Madkat

blah... this is... i dont know... the sstop.bat didnt do anything different and the stop.bat says it failed to do anything... there isnt anything running in the background, forground or any other ground and task manager, as well as all the ports say there is nothing using them or than the normal stuff... and the drive still does not shut down without a full restart... i have a simple explaination.... my computer is stupid and i need a new one... therefor.. im just not going to waste anyone elses time on trying to fix this. c-ya around... madkat

okay, easy enough... but as i asked before... is it a one time use only? meaning all your work is lost/gone when you shut the server down?

i told you, im a noob to this world and so on. and no, the drive does not disappear when i shut down the server, only when i restart my computer. what i was asking is why i cant turn the server back on without having to restart the computer... or are uniform servers only meant to be temporary and one time use? if so, id like to ask that you tell me how i could get something a little more permanent. and if you cant, i understand and its fine. thanks for taking time to help me

no... i didnt really notice any other way x_x another problem that ive noticed now is that everytime i restart my computer, the drive disappears and it readds the files everytime, overwriting anything that previously existed. so its like having to reinstall it each time i restart Edit: okay, i just tried to shut down the server from the admin panel as you suggested... same invalid parameter -w: x_x i really do like the idea of the server being on the computer and me having entire access and it being on its own drive but.... is there a possibility that it would be easier to somehow to my computer to read php/mysql without having to add another drive and turn on the server?

didnt change a thing, although i noticed a blip before it closed on me, so i paused the screen as it loaded and copied this. hope this helps some C:\WINDOWS\DESKTOP\UNISER~1\DISKW\USR\LOCAL\MYSQL\BIN\MYSQLA~1.EXE: connection to server at 'localhost' failed error: 'Can't connec to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)' Check that mysqld is running on localhost and that the port is 3306. You can check this by doing 'telnet localhost 3306' am i trying to start the server the wrong way? im using start.bat each time, dont know what else to use... and even when i turn on the mysql server on the /a/ page, i still get that error messege in the stop.bat and then the invalid parameter in start... well, by this time its now mysql or something else. info about the os... i'll give all the info i know, but if i forget anything, you'll have to ask for it. win98se authenticAMD AMD-k7 Processor 384.0MB Ram 32-bit (taken from the system info from the control panel) hope this helps some...

im not sure if it goes in here, but i thought id post it in here because its apache i was looking for... im just a noob to all this with apache and the only reason i was interested was so that i could learn php/mysql without using a lot of bandwidth and i also like to develope my work offline. information that might be helpful ( i dont know really what would be but...) im running 98se and am using the 3.1 version. anyway, my problem is that whenever i turn on the server, it works fine, until i try to turn it off... when i open stop.pif, the apache/mysql/pearl prompt comes up with an "invalid parameter -w" and then is "finished" so i cant do anything and have to close it. so when i close the (cmd) prompt and then try to start it up again (as i like to test things and figure out how they work) it tells me the W: is busy. that obviously rules out anything using port 80 since it worked the first time. now last night, i couldnt get it to work after turning it off, but when i restarted my computer, it turned on fine. it seems like i can only run it once until i restart. anyway, any help or even an explaination would be helpful. it doesnt bug me much its once a restart, but i still wouldnt mind knowing why. thanks, Madkat