"No 33 Secretary" <taustin+usenet@hyperbooks.com> wrote in message
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> "Computer Whizz" <old486whizz@hotmail.com> wrote in
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>> "johannes m.r." <psychosos@gmx.at> wrote in message
>> news:1cd2yq598h69z$.1gne0lipndurv.dlg@40tude.net.. .
>>> Take a look at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html,
>>> perhaps you like it.
>>> I've to admit I've never used it though.
>>> Regards,
>>> j.
>>
>> I was looking into XAMMP... I thought I'd search sourceforge instead
>> of google, and found that... Does look mighty interesting... Comes
>> with an FTP server too, which might be a little better than my older
>> easyPHP. Thanks for the info.
>>
> I can't speak for the security of the FTP server, but it's certainly easy
> to set up.
>
> One note: it comes with the current version of Mercury for a mail server,
> but there's something wonky in the installer, so it might be better to get
> it from www.pmail.com if you need it.
>
> --
> Terry Austin
> www.hyperbooks.com
> Campaign Cartographer now available

I was planning on customising everything, and looking into the settings to
see how custom I can get it (I do remember adding an entry to my old apache
settings file somewhere - to restrict something... I think it was IP address
banning... Don't think that'll work as I'm behind a router now... Anyway.
Thanks for the heads up... Is it easy/trouble free to upgrade at all?

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