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Building a nice working testserver for webdevelopment on windows vista is still a bit quirky, but at long last it works. (read how after the break)

This time the culprit was mainly mysql in the latest version: MySQL 5.0.51a. And only after some extensive trial and error I got the magic google which gave me the following bug and its solution. So when on vista and when run as administrator and in compatibility mode fails, be sure to check the windows application logfiles.

Similar problems with the default install of PHP 5.2.5, the .msi installer seems to work but running php is only possible if you did not install all extensions, I had to manually edit the php.ini to disable some of the problematic ones. Especially runkit, phar and pdo_oci* would not load (but I remember that bz2 and exif never worked for me on windows). So the installer workd, but be carefull with installing too many extensions. If you have trouble, go to the commandline and try to run php.exe directly, the errormessages will help you fix it.

The apache .msi installer for apache 2.2.8 just worked, which is also new for me because the previous time I tried it the vista UAC made installing impossible. (Beware that for working manual apache configuration you might want to change the accessrights for the apache conf directory if you installed it to the normal program files directory)

This was another short writeup in an ongoing series.

BTW: I guess that when you're interested in this post you can find the downloads yourself.