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A PHP Installer

24th March 2003

Wez Furlong is working on a generic PHP installation script. If he finds a nice solution to the safe_mode and open_basedir restrictions mentioned in his post this could be a hugely useful tool for the PHP community.

Posted 24th March 2003 at 1:54 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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