Well, as I have said in the past (see previous article) there are numerous problems in the Apache/CF/PHP/MySQL set up I am trying to rebuild. The goal was for a system to develop applications on – using the most recent versions of the software and following the dire performance of SuSE10 I thought trying others would be worthwhile…. How wrong was I?
Apache was easy. Infact really easy. It just worked. (Remember I am currently working on a Win XP box). All you do is download the .msi file and run it. Once it finishes you have a server on localhost.

Perl was also easy (used ActiveState ActivePerl). Just run the .msi and it all works. PHP was harder but with the assitance of google and apachelounge.com that was quickly sorted.

Python and ColdFusion MX7 were next. Urgh is all I can say. Python was easy to install on Windows (ActivePython) howeve the “LoadModule mod_python (blah)” bit has gone terminally wrong. Same problem with ColdFusion in that the following error message appears “The specified procedure could not be found.” Nothing I have done so far will rectify this and websearches are far from helpful.

The best I found was a link to a blog Django on Windows but that was just a comment which hasnt been replied to yet. Macromedia / Adobe had some hope on their support forums but that provided the solution on a URL which doesnt work. All in all – not a successful evening.