Yup setting it to your.ip.add.ress:8080 works

How would I go about installing perl?

Please open a new thread related to PERL.

ummmm.. nakkid, i added you to my msn hoping you could help me out...

It's not working... I tried 3 times, following all the instructions...

i'm on win 98... any suggestions?

when i try to go to http://localhost/
i get HTTP 500 Internal server error....

PLEASE HELP!

Quote from the first post:

damn... guess I should reinstall XP.... :(

Thanks anyways

well...I followed the first post to the tee and I installed apache, mysql and php successfully as I can figger

here is what is happening to me.....when I browse to http://localhost/forum/admin/install.php...the page comes up (as did the php test page) but when I click on the "Click here to continue with the next step -->" link it flashes and the page does not change.

any idea what I have done wrong?

I tried lots of things I saw posted throughout this thread but none were related to my problem and I am back to exactly where I was.

suggestions?

BTW
Windoze2000 pro
PHP Version 4.3.0-dev
mysql 3.23.55
apache 2.0.43
IIS not installed (never has been)

Here is what I did....

I manually created all the tables and inserted the data but like others I have seen here...when I go to login to my control panel...it just flashes and is back to the login screen again. I have read every post in here and even tried everything suggested with no success.

I was successful in using phpmyadmin on my local machine to do everything so it makes no sense why the site won't function.

I noticed that tere are php installers and this thread mentions "installing php" but the first post says nothing about an installation...only put some file here and edit them.

If php wans't working....why am I able to view pages?

What am I/we doing wrong?

I have un-installed and re-installed everything as well.

is there no more help being offered in this thread?

It would seem that cookies are my problem but the cookie workaround thing doesn't work for me.

is there any help for me on this.....please?

hint taken

thanks anyway

Thank God for this. I love this. Not only run vB locally. But also test my scripts/hacks before i upload them or release. :)