Ah! firepages.com by it's self was getting me to some racing page. Thanks for clearing that up.

JakeC

Thanks for the tutorials indeed ! Great idea and very thoughtful of you.
May I ask something that may sound dumb ? I am just now dipping my toes into the water here and I wanted to try this out. However, when I went to the MYSQL page I got confused. I could not find a file called mysql windows installation. Yes I know, go ahead and chuckle and roll your eyes. But I want to learn and to learn I have to ask right ? I have had a few hacks installed on my board by other and now want to learn how myself. So if you could point me in the right direction, like which mysql is it exactly, I will toddle on down this hacked trail you folks have forged.

Thanks Kindly,
JAYEMULE

It's a little ways down the page past the linux box. You will see this inside:

"MySQL 3.23.54 Windows 95/98/NT/2000/XP (13.2M) Download"

This is the one I used anyway. Hope it helps.

JakeC

Thank you , I was able to find and download the file.
Now going to get my feet wet :)
Wish me luck and maybe keep a life ring handy ;)

JAYEMULE

I'm still having problems with trying to get into my admin CP and entering my username and password and it just showing me the login page again and it keeps going around in a loop like that forever.

I'm using the cookie workaround and put it frist like someone said you should do. I also tried it at the end and still no good. The version I'm using are as follows:

Apache: 2.0.43
PHP: 4.3.0
MySQL: 3.23.49

And I'm running on Windows XP Home.

Could anyone help please?

delete all of your cookies and clear your cache

Well I did that and it still sends me into the loop

Are you logging in with the right user info?

double check.

Yes I am. It might be happening because I tried transfering my database files to my PC SQL database and then something was correpted. So I will just go back to a fresh install.

i did everything in the instructions but apache refuses to start.. and when i go to http://localhost i just get a page cannot be displayed.. im running windows xp.. anyone help?