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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] New Installer for PHP 5.2
From: phil@dialsolutions.co.uk (Phil Driscoll)

On Monday 24 July 2006 18:54, Steph Fox wrote:
> httpd.conf's weird? It's only a text file :) the complication's in the fact
> that there's more than one way to set it up. But you could offer automated
> basic CGI setups pretty easily using the paths you've already been given
> for php.exe and php.ini, and the module setup actually isn't that
> complicated either, assuming you already know it's an apache module setup
> that's required.

The problem (and the thing which put me off tackling this on the current 
windows installer) is that there are so many ways that a use could have 
already set up their httpd.conf (with regard to global and vhost 
configurations, whether httpd.conf does all the config, or there are include 
files and .htaccess files doing things), the installer would need to more or 
less fully understand apache configuration rules to be able to (a) make sure 
that php was working at the end of the install, and (b) nothing else was 
broken. It would also probably need a massive user interface in order to deal 
with the many decisions which would need to be made in order to work out 
precisely what to do.

Can anyone think of a slick way of dealing with this (and ideally one which 
can be implemented from within Wix?
-- 
Phil Driscoll