Installing the Winestore Examples
The winestore example PHP scripts are available from the author’s web site, http://www.webdatabasebook.com. To install the example scripts that are presented in Chapter 4 to Chapter 10, perform the following steps.
Download the file http://www.webdatabasebook.com/wda.tar.gz into the
/tmp
directoryLog in as the
root
user, make a directory for the file below the document root of the Apache installation, and copy the file to that location:% mkdir /usr/local/apache/htdocs/wda % cp /tmp/wda.tar.gz /usr/local/apache/htdocs/wda
Change directory to the new location and install the files:
% cd /usr/local/apache/htdocs/wda % gzip -d wda.tar.gz % tar xvf wda.tar
Edit the file
db.inc
and modify the first two lines so that the password and username match those selected in the previous section Section A.1.2. Save the file and exit the editor.Load the book homepage by requesting the URL: http://localhost/wda/.
Many of the examples run only if the winestore database has been loaded into the MySQL DBMS by following the instructions in Section 3.2 in Chapter 3.
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