[horde] A request for Windows documentation

[mbydalek at mobilemini.com]

What exactly was he having problems with?  There are a lot of quirky things
with Windows and extensions, esp. copying them around, and downloading file
A for extension B that needs to be in location C otherwise it won't work.
The other odd thing was with the install-packages.bat file and Pear.  I
can't remember the details, but I think it was just an env. Variable issue.

I just did a clean install of Apache, PHP, MySQL and Horde in under 2 hours
yesterday for a new server I'm going to utilize, so I'm curious as to what
exactly his problem was.  If it was the install-packages, I'll maybe go back
and try it again to see if it's a common issue, or it was just me :)

-Mike



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason M. Felice [mailto:jfelice at cronosys.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 12:07 PM
> To: horde at lists.horde.org
> Subject: [horde] A request for Windows documentation
> 
> 
> 
> I had a report from a Windows user that it is very difficult 
> to install 
> PHP and Apache and PEAR and the required libraries needed to 
> run Horde 
> on a Windows server.  He was pretty frustrated, as he'd just 
> spent five 
> days trying to get it working, unsuccessfully. He said he'd like 
> step-by-step instructions on how to install Horde on Windows.
> 
> I politely declined, explaining that this is an Open Source 
> project and 
> contributors are self-motivated, and I was honestly not 
> motivated to do 
> such a thing, but said I'd post here in case anyone else 
> would like to.  
> It sounds like a barrier which might expand the Horde 
> community a nice 
> little clip by lowering.  (I've heard this complaint more 
> than once now.)
> 
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>  Jason M. Felice
>  Cronosys, LLC <http://www.cronosys.com/>
>  216.221.4600 x302
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