This tutorial will walk you though setting up a functioning Windows-Apache-PHP-MySQL + CakePHP installation on Windows XP.  This tutorial should also work for Windows 2000 or Vista, but since I’m not testing in that environment you should know that this was written with Windows XP in mind.

Passenger debuted today and boy was I excited. Mod Rails (Passenger) for those of you who don’t know already is an apache module that lets you deploy Ruby on Rails applications just like you do PHP applications. I can hear you saying, “So What?” already!