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Using Windows ? Don’t Kill Yourself

Supose you are Linux user and you have a Windows system.

Alternatives: Cygwin, Mingw or Colinux

You need some (or all) of this interpreters:

Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby

Modify the %PATH%

Example you have a bin dir, on C:\ to include the executables on the %PATH% do this:

set PATH=%PATH%;C:\bin\

On Windows Vista, you can use your mouse:

computer > properties > Advances system settings > (continue) > Advanced > Enviroment Variables > System Variables > Path (edit)

Example run Kompozer on cmd.exe but no modify %PATH%

: kompozer.bat save on %WINDIR%
@"C:\Program Files\Kompozer\kompozer.exe"

Doble click on your scripts to run:

: Perl Scripts
 assoc .pl=Perl.File
 ftype Perl.File=C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "%1" %*
 set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.pl
: Python Scripts
 assoc .py=Python.File
 ftype Python.File=C:\Python26\python.exe "%1" %*
 set PATHEXT=%PATHEXT%;.py

Note:

On Windows Vista you need run cmd.exe as Administrator don’t work as normal user

Apache, PHP and MySQL ?

XAMPP and Server2Go

Notes:

XAMPP: simple, quick and easy install.

Server2Go: is great to make CD demo of a Web Application.

Using Perl or Python as CGI on Windows ?

Using Python 2.6

#!\python26\python.exe

Using Strawberry Perl:

#!\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe

Now your script works on http://localhost/cgi-bin/script.cgi