Topic: Install folders for Apache, PHP, MySQL - Does Apache care?

[Mel_3]

I'm setting up Apache in c:\webdev\ as someone suggested.

Next I want to install PHP then MySQL.

1 - Should I take the default folders for PHP & MySQL

2 - or should I also put them in c:\wedev\ along with Apache ?

thanks for the help folks !

[sos]

I suggest you organize your webdev applications but still keep them each in their own folder so you can find config files, error logs and so on very easy, i suggest a good set up will be "c:/webdev/apache" for apache, "c:/webdev/mysql" for mysql, "c:/webdev/php" for php and "c:/webdev/wwwroot" for the server's web root, this way you can manage easy all 3 of them, and your web root also, and you can go on if you need more programs or addons or applications, like ruby, or coldfusion, or another databse like sqlite, you can always find a spot for them in the webdev folder (EX: "c:/webdev/ruby" etc). But however, each of them are very customizable and let you configure everything with relative paths, so you can basically install them wherever if you want, but i dont suggest it.