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Jul
3

Mail working with XAMPP

I found this file a few days ago. I’m not sure of it’s originals, but here’s how it works. It uses PHPMailer with a gmail wrapper, so to speak. Here is the code needed: require_once('/phpgmailer/class.phpgmailer.php'); $mail = new PHPGMailer(); $mail->From = 'user@domain.com'; $mail->Username = 'user@domain.com'; $mail->Password = 'password'; $mail->FromName = 'User Name'; $mail->Subject...
Jul
3

What’s wrong with XAMPP

Okay so your trying to XAMPP running but it will not start. Here is a quick way to find out why it won’t start. Open the command prmt ad cd to the directory your XAMPP reside. In my case: C:\>l: Then cd to the dir L:\>cd xampplite Now start XAMPP L:\xampplite>xampp_start.exe Hopefully this helps someone. Please contribute below with your comments. AKPC_IDS += "52,";Popularity: 16% [?]
Jul
3

Vista Crashed last week

My system crashed last week; a years ago this would have been a nightmare for me. Not this time. The last time this happened to me, it took me weeks to get everything back to normal. Even then I still lost a lot of work. It only took me a few hours to recover from this would have been nightmare. Let me share with you how I did it. Browser: I use FireFox, the best browser there ever was. There are several ways...
Jun
26

4 Steps to Apache with virtual host on Windows

A common question that seems to come up often is; how do I setup virtual host on apache. I’m going to show you how to do this on apache running on windows. It really is very simple. I’m going to show you how you can do this in 5 minutes, and just 4 steps. Before we start you will need to download a fresh copy of XAMPP Lite. Once downloaded, unzip the file. You do not need to install this it will run...
Jun
24

Skype and XAMPP Working together in harmony

If you just installed XAMPP, and noticed that it Skype is no longer working for you, here’s why; both are server technologies, which use the same port. This port (port 80) is commonly used for web servers. So what’s happening is that Skype & XAMPP are both listening to, and sending data trough port 80. But they were not designed to share that data stream. This is commonly called a port conflict....
Jun
21

Web server on a thumb drive

I recently wrote an article on installing and using XAMPP on a thumb drive, and this got me thinking. (Oh no you say!) This would be a good way of demonstrating a working site to a client. It would work great if you were there with them to start up the server. But what if you wanted to send it to them. AKPC_IDS += "27,";Popularity: 21% [?]
Jun
13

Safari 3 running on Windows

But I still love Firefox AKPC_IDS += "19,";Popularity: 6% [?]
May
26

My beef with the zone alarm

I have been using zone alarm for quite some time, more than a few years. But recently, I am running into problems. When I first turn on my computer, zone alarm works perfectly fine. But after running for a little while it starts to deny access to certain websites. At first, I believed it just needed updating. So I did update the software. And for a while it seems to have fixed the problem. But within just...
May
12

Using XAMPP on a thumb drive

While developing web sites, I sometimes find myself jumping from PC to PC. Copying each web site’s files and database back and forth it’s to be a pain very quickly. So recently I decided to install XAMPP lite on a thumb drive. This is very easy to achieve, but I will walk you through the steps. The first thing you’ll need to do is download XAMPP lite from XAMPP’S web site. After...
Apr
30

Is your XAMPP crashing.

If you’ve recently installed XAMPP and noticed they your machine becomes unstable after a period of time then you’re not alone. Here’s a quick fix to hold you over until XAMPP fixes the problem. The reason your systems crashing is due to a small program called pv.exe. The program’s purpose is to monitor Apache, and mySQL to ensure continuous running. However, this program runs in the...
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