Lately I’ve seen a lot of good things implemented in PHP, including the blog pages you’re reading. Not that I consider PHP itself as new technology, I just haven’t been using it extensively for anything useful.
To install WordPress on my own server, I decided to give PHP a try in Windows XP environment. It all looked pretty good when the PHP download site offered Windows installers and all. Unfortunately it wasn’t quite plug’n'play as it seemed. After many frustrating hours of configuring it still doesn’t run giving the infamous “The specified module could not be found” -error that seems to be a common error with no specific fix.
The questions is: why would they offer an installer that does not work out-of-the-box? It should be quite possible. In addition, all bug-reports reporting this issue are ignored by the PGP developers because “it is not a bug in PHP”. I disagree: it is a bug in the PHP installer! Make the world a better and more interoperable place and fix it!
I know, the optimum platform would have been a LAMP capable server. Perhaps I’ll try it on one of those running in my VMWare. Meanwhile, let’s try this hosted solution, which by the way, seems to work brilliantly.
