2005-03-05 02:53:26 UTC
As far as I can tell, it won't run under win98se. Apache does not start. If I try to start Apache manually via the command line, it reports that there's a problem in the .conf file where the PHP module is referenced, and that there's a .dll missing that is required for reading the php4apache2.dll file.
It seems to be a problem related to Apache not starting properly with PHP installed as a module. You can change the apache .conf file so that PHP is loaded as a CGI thing-a-ma-jig, but I found that although Apache would start with things configured that way, the system basically slowed to a crawl and was useless (no web pages every actually loaded).
I also found that you could get Apache to start with PHP configured as a module, if you copied php4ts.dll from the PHP folder to the windows/system folder (I guess that was the missing .dll that win98se was not smart enough to find otherwise). But again, the system slowed to a crawl and nothing really happened, despite Apache actually starting.
I have got this program to work like a charm on winXP home. So it does work, it's a neat app, useful for any web development, not just XOOPS. But with win98se, it doesn't seem to work.
--Julian
