As per instruction in the said book i have downloaded Apache 2.0, Php 5 and mysql 5.0 on XP Prof. platform, further i have Tested Apache 2.0 php 5 & MySQL and they work Independently fine but as per instruction in the book when i tried to configure PHP to MySQL by removing ; before extension=php_mysql.dll in the file php.ini windows XP gives message as the appche services can not be available. send error report to Microsoft.
But if i keep that ; before extension=php_mysql.dll in the php.ini as it is then appache server starts but MySQL through PHP is not available it givest error as 500 http internal server error.
Pl guide.