Development Environment on local machine

[icecold]

I just installed XAMPP 1.5.4 after removing the latest version 1.7.3 because of the infamous blank screen and all the deprecated errors caused by latest MySQL.

So I started by installing a fresh 1.3.8a, and I will drop all tables and remove all files except /includes/configure.php, and /admin/includes/configure.php, and copy all my working environment, including all db tables and all modified and unmodified files and add-ons I have, because I need to test sensitive scripts and modules I am developing, I am trying to mimic the online environment, although I have a different configuration.

Online I have MySQL 4.1.22-standard
PHP Version 5.29
Linux Environment

and locally I have MySQL 5.0.24a-community-nt
PHP Version: 5.1.6 (Zend: 2.1.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate 32bits

Will the scripts be affected because of the different PHP and MySQL versions?

I am going to install add-ons, and many of them require PHP 5.x, my only concern is with MySQL 5.0.24a ... as I read ZC works better in version 4.4x ... and to be honest I never used version MySQL version 5.x, but so far I was able to run the default store and admin ... so that means this environment is safe and I can proceed installing everything or should I get MySQL v 4.4.x to be on the safe side?

[frank18]

You may be better off installing WampServer Version 2.0

Created by Romain Bourdon ([email protected])
Sources are available at SourceForge
http://www.wampserver.com

It gives you the choices of most versions of MySql and php. If one does not work then just get an earlier or later version and swap as you like.

Frank

[frank18]

Some more info about WampServer 2.0 (sorry, too late to edit my last post above.....)

http://www.wampserver.com/en/presentation.php

[icecold]

Some more info about WampServer 2.0 (sorry, too late to edit my last post above.....)

http://www.wampserver.com/en/presentation.php

Thanks for the tip I used Wamp Server before but I read a thread with horror stories with the latest version in a developer's site.

If this fails I will give it a try! So far so good, but it's too early to say, because I didn't moved anything yet, from the local's copy to htdocs ...

I was wondering if anyone knows where ZC checks for installation parameters besides both configures, or if it makes some subtle changes, I thought moving all the files and keeping the same structure and check paths in both configure.php files to ensure they are correct, will suffice, but apparently I am missing something ... because this way it shows the familiar installation screen, instead of displaying the store's home page ...

I am asking this because I am trying to avoid the tedious task of going fresh, start from scratch, delete everything, drop the database tables, and then copy the old site, and insert the SQL ...