Cygwin Installation

Wherever you have your cygwin setup program, do the following. setup.exe -q -P  wget,tar,qawk,bzip2,subversion,vim Open Cygwin and perform the following: svn –force export http://apt-cyg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ /bin/ chmod +x /bin/apt-cyg   Syntax: apt-cyg install <package names>” to install packages 
apt-cyg remove <package names>” to remove packages 
apt-cyg update” to update setup.ini 
apt-cyg show” to show installed packages 
apt-cyg find <pattern(s)>” to find packages matching patterns 
apt-cyg describe <pattern(s)>” to describe packages matching patterns 
apt-cyg packageof <commands or files>” to locate parent packages       —-> install mysql server apt-cyg install mysqld mysql_install_db -user=root -ldata=/var/lib/mysql To start mysqld at boot time you have to copy support-files/mysql.server to the right place for your system PLEASE REMEMBER TO SET A PASSWORD FOR THE MySQL root USER ! To do so, start the server, then issue the following commands: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password ‘new-password’ /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root -h sumomo password ‘new-password’ Alternatively you can run: /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation which will also give you the option of removing the test databases and anonymous user created by default. This is strongly recommended for production servers. See the manual for more instructions. You can start the MySQL daemon with: cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe & You can test the MySQL daemon with mysql-test-run.pl cd /usr/mysql-test ; perl mysql-test-run.pl Please report any problems with the /usr/bin/mysqlbug script!

  1. cd /usr ; /usr/bin/mysqld_safe &
  2. /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

Installing php5 on cyrgin

  1. setup.exe -K http://cygwinports.org/ports.gpg
  2. Follow notes here: http://sourceware.org/cygwinports/
  3. Add ftp://ftp.cygwinports.org/pub/cygwinports