Saturday, March 5, 2011

Installing a Complete Web Development Machine on Windows 7 with CakePHP

The solution listed below is running PHP in IIS7, which actually works pretty good, all things considered.

1. Install Web Platform Installer

2. Install PHP Manager, PHP 5.3, CGI (including FastCGI), URL Rewrite Module (Not quite as bullet proof as Mod Rewrite, but very well done)

3. Install MySQL CE

4. Install MySQL Workbench (If you like GUI MySQL management)

5. Copy Over CakePHP to Library, and Add PHP executable path, and cake console path to Env PATH

I recently, installed Windows 7 on my laptop, (Thanks Chuck) and it gave me the opportunity to re-create my development environment.

Supposedly, Windows has a WebMatrix Package the creates a fully functional web server stack, but it uses SQL Server express, which always just seems so heavy to me.

No comments: