PhP File hoster.

Hello,

I am looking for a webhost like (but not) xampp, wamp or easyphp, 'cause they all won't work, they either can't find the files in the htdocs/www folder, or can't connect to MSSQL. Now my question is, if somebody has a nice filehoster to upload my php files on (registry files and such), one wherefrom the webfolder can actually be accessed from another network and which can connect to MSSQL without editing every file in it. Anyone has good experiences with a certain program?

Thanks in advance!

I always prefear IIS works rly easy and is more secure then xampp. only down side u would need to buy a little vps for that. good point there are a few rly cheap hoster that just charge 5-10€ a month.

Well, we already do have a host, but do you mean a host host or a webhost host? o.o Thanks for answering!

i speaking about a vps which is able with apache or as i suggest with IIS to put stuff online for everyone.
(any vps is able to do so ;) )

security issues are a long passionate debate, some are convinced that MS IIS servers (15% market share) are robust while others prefer Apache (65% market share). fortunately it was not the question.

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can't find the files in the htdocs/www folder

in the file <your install dir>/conf/httpd.conf

change "DocumentRoot" to match your document root.

(if your httpd.conf ends with an include of a "httpd.include" file, modify the setting in that file).

I assume a 2.2+ (or 2.4) release of Apache is installed.
if it is not the case, [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...] (choose your platform 32 / 64, then the version 2.4 with open ssl 0.9.8 (you likely don't need SSL at all).

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or can't connect to MSSQL

you need a MSSQL-svr (!) and the native SQL client pack and a driver to let PHP talk to the SQL middleware.
the native client is a part of the SQL-server, double-check the install (do a maint) to be sure it is installed.
the driver is [Only registered and activated users can see links. Click Here To Register...]

I'm using the version 2 w/o trouble but it support Apache version 2.2 & 2.3; the current release is 2.4, so the version 3 of driver is required, but (and w/o surprise) microsoft did its best to forbid its use under OS prior seven; in short to use a 15k FREE driver you have to pay a full license for the latest OS; out of topic but boring, I keep my XP and do not perform a test of that release 3.

if you success to launch it, provide it the extension ("ext") sub-directory of your PHP install, it will install the drivers and some help files, read them (the 6 lines!) to choose the driver you must use.

IIS beeing more secure is a fairly interesting joke even though it is not related to the topic.