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Page 3 of 6 Starting, stopping and restartingThe three files in the folder you would see are: Disk Start.vbs, Server_Start.bat and Stop.bat To star the server double click on Server_Start.bat. This will run Apache on your computer and pop up your default browser. You would see the control page of the Uniform server which would allow to do a lot of other things. See Fig. 3. 
In addition to the browser popup you would also have an additional drive on your system! This is generally W:\. Uniform sever maps a portion of its directory to this drive for easy access. You have to put your all web files under the www folder of W:\ drive (or equivalently at C:\Uniform Server\diskw\www). From the web based interface, you can start and stop MySQL server, stop the apache server itself (same as running the batch file Stop.bat) or restart the whole server (Apache plus MySQL). These options are at the top left corner of Fig. 3. (You need to start the MySQL manually every time you start the server.) To go down the page, you need to hover the mouse on the down arrow on the page! A tricky way. There you can view PHP information, server status, Perl environment and a lot of other things. What we need to know is the phpMyAdmin. This would allow us to create MySQL database and configure it for website. |
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