installing MySql help

[IsMaR]

hey wussup everyone i am new here, i made one site www.ismar-music.tk and that is just beggining, now that i think that i mastered Html or did i just get bored of it, w/e it is i want to expand my websites i want to have couple more with PHP Nuke, PhpBB, java applets and list goes on, because they have lot of features! i am gonna be using windows xp pro's IIS to host my future sites, and i want to install MySql, can anyone tell me how do u install it or give me turtorial or link please?

[IsMaR]

Plus how do i then create MySql databasses?

[griz_fan]

Well, you can install PHP and MySQL to work in conjunction with IIS, but you may be better off bypassing IIS for this and installing Apache to run PHP and MySQL. On my XP Pro system at home, I installed Apache2Triad. This install kit gave me Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl and a bunch of other goodies, including PHPMyAdmin for creating MySQL databases, tables, etc... Checkout HotScripts.com. they have listings of several Apache/PHP/MySQL installation kits for Windows. If you're running IIS, just be sure to stop IIS before installing and running one of these kits (otherwise, Apache and IIS will both fight it out for port 80 on your box, causing troubles).
Now, if I need to do some ASP stuff, I stop Apache and start IIS. If I need to do some PHP stuff, I stop IIS and start Apache. It's all pretty simple (though I find myself doing less and less ASP stuff now that I've discovered all the cool scripts avaiable for PHP). The nice thing about doing all this on my local machine is that I can experiment all I want, make mistakes, etc... Once I've got a system down, I can then move it out to my webhost...

[IsMaR]

tan********xx man, that really helped, anyway can i do same thing with windows xp home cuz i have probs upgrading to proffesional?

[bill]

Windows XP Home lacks IIS, so you'd only be able to work with Apache on that platform.

[griz_fan]

As Bill mentioned, with XP home, this process would actually be easier, becuase XP Home doesn't come with IIS, so you won't have to worry about managing the conflict between IIS and Apache