Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Ford
O. Lavell wrote: Also, it is not for daily use. I have two desktop computers and a server for that. This is for when I have to go by train or something. Essentially it is just an extra plaything. Does the battery still hold enough charge for a train journey - that always seems to be the

Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread richard
Hi, What do people on this list use as an ultra-lightweight web server (with PHP capability of course) on Windows? I have an old but still well functioning laptop that I have just given a second life by installing Windows Fundamentals (a stripped down version of XP). This works surprisingly

Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread O. Lavell
Peter Ford wrote: O. Lavell wrote: Also, it is not for daily use. I have two desktop computers and a server for that. This is for when I have to go by train or something. Essentially it is just an extra plaything. Does the battery still hold enough charge for a train journey - that

Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread O. Lavell
richard wrote: I would have recommended Omni HTTPd, but it seems it is no more. Anyone know what happened to it? Funny, how it seems that there aren't so many choices for this in the Windows world. Regardless, I'd recommend buying a server (cheap or otherwise) running your target

Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-18 Thread O. Lavell
Jonathan Tapicer wrote: Try nginx (http://nginx.net/), very light, has a Windows binary distribution and can be configured easily for PHP. Sorry for my late reply, and thank you for this suggestion. I am now trying nginx and it looks very promising so far. It seems to be both a very simple

Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-18 Thread O. Lavell
Daevid Vincent wrote: Out of curiosity, if this is just for coding, and you're already a Linux guy, why not just install a lightweight linux flavor on the laptop instead of WF/XP? This is a rather prehistoric (Windows 98 era) laptop, a Compaq Armada 1700 with 266 MHz CPU. Somewhere along the

RE: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-16 Thread Daevid Vincent
Out of curiosity, if this is just for coding, and you're already a Linux guy, why not just install a lightweight linux flavor on the laptop instead of WF/XP? http://www.xfce.org/ http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-10-of-lightweight-linux_24.html You didn't mention the specs, but any

Re: [PHP] Lightweight web server for Windows?

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathan Tapicer
Try nginx (http://nginx.net/), very light, has a Windows binary distribution and can be configured easily for PHP. You can also find some version of Lighttpd compiled for Windows and skip the compilation troubles, and you can use this: http://sites.google.com/site/lightytray/ to control the