Okay so I need some help

[KB3LAZ]

I have a dedicated server that I bought to setup as a game server. I have the databases installed and working just fine and people can connect however I have to make their accounts manually. To get around this I need to make apache webserver 2 and PHP 5 run properly side by side on windows server 2003 and I cant get this to work correctly. From my understanding doing so will make it so that when they sign up on my forums a script will communicate with my game databases and register their account.

So basically what I need to know how to do is to get Apache2 and PHP5 to run side by side..can anyone help me with this?

[KC2UGV]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/windows.html

http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php

It should be pretty straight forward, since both have windows installers now.

You can also do this (Not recommended really): http://www.wampserver.com/en/

What forum are you using, and how are they connecting now? (ie through a game client)

[KB3LAZ]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/windows.html

http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php

It should be pretty straight forward, since both have windows installers now.

You can also do this (Not recommended really): http://www.wampserver.com/en/

What forum are you using, and how are they connecting now? (ie through a game client)

They are communicating with me trough a freewebs account lol.

Yes they are connecting through a game server which brings me to another issue. I cant get a downloader to work because my files wont compress because of their size. So what I have them doing is running of a client from another version of the game, downloading my exe and data files. They then have to patch the IP with a hex editor. The problem with that is that some people want to play but cant figure out how to do what I am asking of them to connect.

Im in over my head here but IDC I wont give up.

[KB3LAZ]

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/windows.html

http://php.net/manual/en/install.windows.php

It should be pretty straight forward, since both have windows installers now.

You can also do this (Not recommended really): http://www.wampserver.com/en/

What forum are you using, and how are they connecting now? (ie through a game client)

Oh and I tried using guides to install correctly but I am running into issues with the programs working correctly.

[KB3LAZ]

However I will also have RCL look at this when he gets here and maybe he can use the links and get this going. If not I will have to wait but I have someone to talk to in person this weekend. :) What irritates me is that I cant figure it out myself...lol. It makes me feel incompetent.

[KC2UGV]

Oh and I tried using guides to install correctly but I am running into issues with the programs working correctly.

Can Apache serve up pages?

If so, can you create the phpinfo file, and retrieve that page?

If no, you might have to tell Apache to use the PHP module still.

[KB3LAZ]

Is there a package like wamp that will work with MSSQL rather than MySQL?

[KC2UGV]

Is there a package like wamp that will work with MSSQL rather than MySQL?

Not that I know of. Why not use MySQL? Does the game server require MSSQL?

[KB3LAZ]

Not that I know of. Why not use MySQL? Does the game server require MSSQL?

Yes

[KC2UGV]

Well, I guess it's back to figuring out where in the setup Apache + PHP broke.