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I opened Larry's home page (www.larryullman.com) and clicked on the name of the book. However I could not find anything relating to downloads. I am at the stage in the book where entering all the data on my keyboard is tedious and would like to download scripts for the php examples and queries for the SQL database examples to make this task easier. Could you please be more specific about where to find these scripts and queries.

The book mentions that the scripts shown in the book are available on Larry Ullman's web site. I can't find these scripts. Help please.

Thanks, Larry, for responding. I too have found that my local server installation works fine (so far) but it would be helpful if someone would explain why I get the reported error messages and what I can do to fix it.

Windows 7 SP1 2GB RAM I followed the installation instructions in the bonus appendix to the book for XAMPP and installed the programs, scripts, etc on a new partition in the folder H:\XAMPP. When I open the XAMPP Control Panel I get the following message: XAMPP Component Status Check failure [-2] Current directory H:\xampp Run this program from your XAMPP root directory. I have checked the source of the file that runs the Control Panel and it is H:\XAMPP\xampp-control.exe which is in the root of the XAMPP directory. The XAMPP Control Panel shows the following status: (tick) Scv Apache Running (tick) Scv MySql Running (no tick) Scv FileZilla (not running) (no tick) Scv Mercury (not running) When I open XAMPP in my browser the Welcome page says "Congratuation you have successfully installed XAMPP on this system and the Status page shows: MySQL database ACTIVATED PHP ACTIVATED Common Gateway Interface (CGI) ACTIVATED Server Side Includes (SSI) ACTIVATED SMTP Service DEACTIVATED FTP Service DEACTIVATED FTP Service DEACTIVATED What is the problem with the installation that causes the error message? One further problem, when I try to stop either the Apache or MySQL service in the Control Panel I get another error message which states: This program must be run from the XAMPP root directory. Busy.... ERROR: -1