PHP requires Web Servere - will Geocities work?

Just installed PHP (I think!) and but it asked for a web server in the instructions. I've got an account with Geocities - is that sufficient or need I have my own domain? I'm just looking to learn atm so I'd rather not be paying for my own domain if possible at this stage.

Any help and suggestions are much appreciated, thanks!

 

geocities already has PHP version 4.3.11 what do you mean you just installed it ?

 

If you're looking to just learn, install XAMPP from apachefriends.org... it has Apache (the actual web server that you will need) plus PHP and MySQL already to go. Be sure to read the documentation, though!

 

Thanks but when I click to download XAMPP Windows 1.6.4 from apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.6.4-installer.exe I get an Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage error - anyone know why this is, or where else I can download XAMPP?

 

Start XAMPP manually it if doen't run already. Go to:

C:/path/to/XAMPP/

And double click "xampp_start.exe".

Then refresh IE. There's no need to download it somewhere else. The one from apachefriends is the official one and it does work.

 

I've tried to download it on my Firefox browser also, but the download link seems broken or busy?
"Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at prdownloads.sourceforge.net."

 

if you want to run a local server to learn from try http://www.uniformserver.com/ its better than many.

xampp can be downlaoded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=61776 took a 5 second google search.

 

I found it on the Sourceforge site and it seems to be downloading ok from there.
Sorry if I seem a bit slow; I've never used any CGI programmes before!
Thanks everyone for your help.

 

Sorry, I misunderstood your question at first. I thought XAMPP itself was giving you troubles.