Apache and Dreamweaver: Is there need for configuration?

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I which to download Apache for use with Dreamweaver.Would I need to configure it before using it for testing PHP code written in Dreamweaver?

Posted 24-Oct-13 16:27pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-13 0:14am

Apache is a decent serious product, in contrast to Dreamweaver, yet another Adobe consumer product for the weak-minded, Adobe's revenue generator, like most Adobe crafts (I recently finally got rid of another one: Acrobat PDF reader, feel so happy about it!). Why mixing one with another?
—SA

thatraja 25-Oct-13 8:46am

So what's the current one(alternate for Acrobat PDF reader) you're using?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-13 10:13am

SumatraPDF. Highly recommend. Especially last version: plug-in supporting major browser was added (but not for IE, which is especially attractive :-)). Differs from Acrobat like earth from sky. I threw out Acrobat a while ago, even having nothing for an in-browser viewer; still better than Acrobat.

For Linux, I have default Evince (not quite as good, but still much better than Acrobat) which does have Windows version, but it is pretty much defunct on Windows...

And GIMP will become a decent replacement for Adobe Photoshop soon, when they add 16-bit color. Other features are not as reach, stability is questionable, but convenience was already much better, due to a non-lamers concept, doubling length parameters in digits. Sometimes, you need to move something exactly by, say, 2 pixels, a feature fully closed for Photoshop users...

—SA

thatraja 25-Oct-13 10:20am

OK, I'll try SumatraPDF. Currently I'm using Foxit & it's better than Acrobat. I hated Adobe updates. And I'm gonna use GIMP as I'm planning to work on something. I have seen that many people moved to GIMP, I saw that in some graphics/animation software forums. Thank you.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-13 10:27am

Adobe updates are simply unbearable. I started with disabling update notification (you know, there are utilities, from Sysinternals and other). I failed! But worst thing is viewing itself, no good zoom, not acceptable selection and copy...

As to GIMP: another must-have is Inkscape. Amazing thing. And great for XAML development, too.
And also IrfanView, best viewer I aver saw: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irfanview

—SA

thatraja 25-Oct-13 10:32am

Well, you're playing with many softwares. Yeah, I heard about Inkscape(alternate for one of Adobe product). And some more good softwares are MyPaint, Krita. And for animations Synfig. I'm gonna use that one.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Oct-13 11:10am

Thank you for sharing. I'll check it out. Do you know a good UML tool?
—SA

satyaanupama 14-Nov-13 0:51am

rational rose is the very gud uml tool.. i used it since 4 years... thanku

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Peter Leow · Answer 1 · 2013-11-13T18:01:00

You may want to download a copy of XAMPP from the ApacheFriend website. Among other things, it comes with Apache and MySQL. Just follow the instructions on the website to install. It is very straight forward, just leave everything to default, you should get a xampp folder on your Windows C drive.

As for Dreamweaver, you can find a lot of tutorials on setting up a site and database using Dreamweaver. I will just give a brief account to help your get started, say you want to set up a website called "mysite", then first create a new folder called "mysite" in the "c:\xampp\htdocs" folder, then launch Dreamweaver (example based on CS5.5),

1. to link up with Apache: Site > New Site...> Site > Site Name: mysite > Local Site Folder > C:\xampp\htdocs\ymysite

2. to set up Apache as test server: continue in 1 > click Servers > + sign > Server Name: localApache > Connect using: Local/Network > Server Folder: c:\xampp\htdocs\mysite > Web URL: http://localhost/mysite > click Save > select Testing option

Hope that help you to get started.