Tip for Setting up Apache, MySQL and PHP on Vista
Just setup a PHP/MySQL development server on my Vista-based laptop.
Here is a good rundown of setting up a VAMP (Vista, Apache, MySQL, PHP) server from Devshed:
Creating a VAMP
The other thing to know, which this article skipped, is that you should run your text editor as administrator when editing the config files. If you don’t do this you won’t be editing the correct file (only your Users version of it which isn’t actually used by the system).