Earlier I had messed up my LAMP test server trying to upgrade PHP from 4 to 5 and it was a real headache till I got everything to work..
Someone asked me a question – is there a simple way to install everything (Apache, MySQL PHP with necessary modules) in one shot without configuring each and everything manually.. I had no clue that time but I understood that there is a solution for this..
Just browsed http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html and found proof that there is a solution available.
Have you tried this? I have to mess up my server again if I have to test this 😉 So let me see when time permits 🙂 🙂
[Update] There wasn’t mysql enabled on PHP5 when I installed RHEL5 afresh. So I had to remove the rpms of PHP, stop httpd,vsftpd and mysqld forever. Installed XAMPP and everything is working perfectly now..
There is a bit of security issues in XAMPP (Not so big if you take care). So read their documents properly.