[Phpgroupware-docteam] The start of Windows Install docs

[Julien Goodwin]

here's the start, just the requirements section, but that would help a lot of people get started.

 

Requirements:
1. A webserver supporting PHP ( >= 4.0.6 )
 I use apache (1.3.20) for windows, you can download an installer for the latest version (1.3.22 as of this writing) from http://www.apache.org/
 PHP is downloadable from http://www.php.org/ and supports at least the following webservers (under windows):
  * Personal Web Server 3 and 4 or newer (Win 9x/ME)
  * Internet Information Server 3 or newer (Win NT/2k/XP)
  * Apache 1.3.x
  * OmniHTTPd 2.0b1 and up
  * Oreilly Website Pro
  * Xitami
Note: There are some issues with threading web servers (Such as IIS/PWS/Apache 2 + others) and PHP that are still being resolved as of January 2002

 

Installation and configuration of those services is not covered here, there are good resorces on the web (for apache) and in PHP's manual.

 

2. The following PHP modules to be enabled and configured.
 * php_imap.dll - For Email Support
 * php_mysql.dll - For MySQL database Support
 * php_pgsql.dll - For PostgreSQL database support

 

3. A database server running either MySQL (preffered) or PostgreSQL.
 Note: The database server does not have to be on the same machine, or even running windows. If you are going to use windows for the server, unless you are a professional PostgreSQL admin use MySQL, it works without the need for mashing of teeth.