Usb Portable Web Server

[Lourens]

Hi,

Does anyone know of a portable web server with at least have Apache, PHP, MySQL and can be installed on a usb flash disk?

I have seen a few but they will only work if it is also installed on the machine that you want to use the usb on. I need it to run on different platforms - mostly different versions of Windows.

I need to create a self contained distributable usb database containing chemical formulas where the user will be able to access the data via a GUI or browser type interface. The catch is that the user must be able to update the data or formulas and save these changes on the usb.

Any other suggestions on how to do this will be appreciated.

Thanks,

Lourens

 

[RSkeens]

You can try using http://www.browserpuppy.com/server.html however virtually any live capable distro can be used to setup AMP without a hard disk install.

Best of luck!

 

[SilverNodashi]

http://www.portableapps.com has a port for XAMPP which works very well.

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Your looking for XAMPP!

Its a standalone application that you can just startup at anytime as per your requirements.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

 

[Other Pineapple Smurf]

Easy installation and deinstallation
To install XAMPP you only need to download and extract XAMPP, that's all. There are no changes to the Windows registry (not true if you use the Windows installer version of XAMPP) and it's not necessary to edit any configuration files. It couldn't be easier!

To check that XAMPP is working some sample programs are included, there is a small CD collection program (written in PHP using MySQL) and a small guest book software (written in Perl) and several other demonstration utilities.

If you decide that XAMPP isn't needed any more just delete the XAMPP directory and it's completely removed from your system.





** So just make sure you use the correct version.

EDIT: The only extra advice on this is to use a different port, say 8080 instead of port 80. And also use different ports for your MySQL - just in case a MySQL client is already running on the PC and you do not want to connect to the wrong one.