I have a computer I wish to use as a Server for a couple of my Websites.
It is a Pentium III, 20 GB HD, 256Ram with XP home edition (FAT32).
I do not wish to install a Linux Distro.
I installed XAMPP for windows but it appears no use to me as it will not publish Joomla, Drupal or any sites that require CHMOD to safeguard the files, these sites will give out SQL errors as the permissions cannot be set under the above windows environment.
I have installed these sites on various hosts, but of course they were all Unix hosts.
I have tar.gz the sites from one host to another and from one mysql to another after changing the configuration.php files to suit.
But they will not work within windows XAMPP.
At the moment the internet connection sharing is working on the above computer, (I will not use a router), and all the other four computers in use in this network environment connect through the above computer.
I also wish to protect the XAMPP folders from the internet as my IP address will be the domain when I set up the DNS with the web address's.
As I cannot figure out how to allow the internet through the XAMPP password to view the website in htdocs I figured it would be better to put the websites on a dedicated partition on the hard drive. So how do I get XAMPP to see these websites?
Anyone with any solutions to the above problems.
I did consider installing the linux XAMPP on a formatted Linux partition, see:
http://community.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=35245
But I think I will run into too many problems with CoLinux & Cygwin.
Is there something I am missing relating to the Joomla websites, I cannot see how I can CHMOD the files in a windows OS.
I used Filezilla FTP to try and CHMOD the local files but it did not work.
Just at a loss with it all at the moment.