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How To Create A PHP Website With Mongoose
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## 1. Create a directory which will contain your website files. For example, on drive `C:\`, create a directory called `my_website`:
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## 2. Inside `my_website` directory, create a new file called "index". This will be the default web page shown when the website is visited.
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## 3. Open index file with your favorite editor (for example, Notepad) and enter some HTML / PHP code:
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## 4. Save this file as `index.php`:
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## 5. Download Mongoose executable from http://cesanta.com/mongoose.shtml and copy the executable inside `my_website` directory:
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## 6. Double-click mongoose executable. An icon will appear on a system tray in the bottom right corner of the desktop:
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## 7. Download PHP 5.3 zip (do NOT download PHP 5.5 cause you might have missing DLLs problem) from http://windows.php.net/download and extract it to `C:\php5` directory:
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## 8. Click on the mongoose icon and choose "Edit Settings" menu.:
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## 9. A settings dialog will appear. Click on `cgi_interpreter` button:
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## 10. Choose `C:\php5\php-cgi.exe` and click "Save Settings":
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## 11. Click on the mongoose icon and choose "Start browser" menu:
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## 12. A browser will popup displaying `index.php`.
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