J Collett wrote: > That's probably my next step - maybe off a liveCD first? In the meantime, I > installed XAMPP on a USB stick for the purpose of playing with all these > wonderful CMS, wiki, blog and photo gallery apps. It shouldn't be too hard > to relocate the one I choose eventually to proper web server, should it? > The beauty of MAMP/LAMP/XAMPP is the common M. Everything is stored in the mysql database. (Well you might have some external pictures to manage.) Fling it around to your heart's content with mysqldump and mysql.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/mysqldump.html The most common use of *mysqldump* is probably for making a backup of an entire database: shell> *|mysqldump /|db_name|/ > /|backup-file.sql|/|* You can read the dump file back into the server like this: shell> *|mysql /|db_name|/ < /|backup-file.sql|/|* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Wordpress is proving to be very user friendly and heaps of themes > available; I also want to try Serendipity, anyone have experience with it? > Kewl, Jan. I hadn't come across XAMPP before http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. It lets you learn a little Linux and try out the likes of Wordpress (e.g. http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/xampp/) from the comfort of your XP box. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
