Howdy all. A friend of mine told me about XAMPP, and how he
likes it because its handy to put on his USB Stick Drive and take with him.
I got this because I'm running IIS by default (half hearted attempt @ ASP)
and wanted to still be able to use Apache to test my sites on,
since I use .HTACCESS files sometimes (mainly for mod_rewrite).
Anyways, I have a few questions to ask concerning XAMPP.
1. I'm running XAMPP (full) on a external hard drive; I want
to generate a self-signed certificate (SSL) using OpenSSL.
However, I cannot open 'CMD' and type in cd e:\
I tried, but it won't change the directory to the E (external) drive.
Is there any way around this to generate a SSL Certificate?
If so, how? What would be the code and method, so forth?
2. I use a reseller host, to host multiable sites (alot cheaper).
However, their AWStats doesn't resolve IPs, so AWStats cannot
give country data; I tried to, but can't figure out how to install AWStats.
Any ideas? Also once I do, where can I store log files from my sites, so
that AWStats will process them for me??
3. I notice that 'mysql_stop.bat' does NOT work for me.
It pops up a CMD window, beeps, and closes it. But it does not
turn off MySQL nor close the other MySQL CMD window. Also if I do
close the MySQL CMD window, the process does not end.
Only way around this I've found (so far) is 'xampp_stop.exe'.
Am I supposed to use the *_start.bat files, or the 'xampp_start.exe' file,
to start up Apache and MySQL? I do not need FileZilla or Mercury.
Thanks for making this excellent product,
and I hope you guys keep up the good work.
Regards,
- Jonathan.
*edited* Okay I found a solution for the CMD;
just copy the 'cmd.exe' file from /WINNT/system32/ to the E drive.
But I can't find any sites on info to generate a SSL Cert for Windows.