Web Database Example

ESM 261
Fall 2007
James Frew

[single page] [slide show]

Your Own Web Server

XAMPP Lite for Windows

 
  • installation instructions
    1. download
    2. double-click xampplite-win32-1.6.4.exe
    3. extract to H:\
      • installs in directory H:\xampplite
    4. double-click H:\xampplite\setup_xampp.bat
      • only need to do this once
  
  • operation
    • to start servers, double-click xampp_start.exe
    • to stop servers, double-click xampp_stop.exe
  • http://localhost/ is mapped to H:\xampplite\htdocs\
    • e.g. H:\xampplite\mydir\myfile.html will be served as http://localhost/mydir/myfile.html

Connecting Access to the Web with PHP

  1. download demo files
  2. unpack into H:\xampplite\htdocs\dbemo\
  3. http://localhost/dbdemo/gnis_ca.html