Hello my friends, first I want to thanks to all your for your help every time i need it.

In this case, I am trying to learn Perl or/and PHP to develop for the web using or not a database, but I don't have a server available to do my classes, practices, etc., I only have a PC with dual boot WinMe/RH 7.1 and i want to have your recomendation to start my learning program, in this moment I have enough documentation.

I downloaded PHP, Perl and MySQL for windows, these three programs are also installed in my Linux partition but I don't know which is my best option, windows or Linux??, however i am very, very interested to learn to develop for web in both systems (win and Linux) using Perl, PHP and MySQL.

thanks again.

you're best off using linux for all three of those, since they're all designed to be run on unix/linux platforms (even though they are supported by windows).

i started developing php and mysql scripts on a windows box, and once i moved to linux i found it much easier and more straightforward.

hope this helps. :-)

It's easy to get started in RedHat 7. Just install the following RPMs:

mysql
mysqlclient
mysql_server
apache
php
php_mysql
perl
mod_perl

They're all in the RedHat/RPMS directories on the install CDs.

Presumably you also will have X windows and Netscape or Mozilla installed in order to see what you're doing.

Once you have all those items (plus any prerequisites), you can start apache with
"/sbin/service httpd start" and see the sample page by typing in "http://localhost" into your browser. The actual page sources will be under /var/www - just add a PHP page (maybe name it "test.php") and goto "http://localhost/test.php". If everything installed OK, you'll be on the way to success and happiness doing web programming with PHP and Perl!

for cross-platform developement (window, linux, and more) its hard to beat Java: http://java.sun.com

Here is their web services tutorial:
http://java.sun.com/webservices/docs...ial/index.html

If you want to see Java class libraries, see here:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/docs/api/index.html

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But .NET will soon be another option. There is an open source project here: http://go-mono.org

If you want to see .NET class libraries, see here:

http://msdn.micro$oft.com/library/de...pref_start.asp

note: the above link only works if you replace "$" with "s" (it's not my fault, blame the linuxquestions admin :-)