OK, this is going to sound dumb to most but here goes. Please keep in
mind, I am coming from a windows background.
I want to do some development using PhP and animated gifs. I see that the
patch can be applied to PhP 4.3.2 and 4.3.3 to enable imagegif and animate
functions. I have come to the realization that I am going to have to run
my own local linux server.
My question then is what do I need to install a local server to host web
pages from, I will also need a database. I want to run a typical hosted
site except I want to be able to easily create gif animations and I also
want access to ImageMagick. My current host has access to neither.
The installation of the MySql I think I can handle. It's the apache and
other web stuff part I think I am going to have trouble with.
So what do I need to run a typical host site then? PhP, Perl, cgi-bin,
MySql, Apache, umm?? Any good books or sites for setting up a server
step-by-step?
Thanks
C