Re: What happened to EasyPHP? [message #170937 is a reply to message #170936] |
Thu, 09 December 2010 23:22 |
MikeB
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Kim André Akerø wrote:
> På Thu, 09 Dec 2010 20:43:55 +0100, skrev MikeB <mpbrede(at)gmail(dot)com>:
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>> Probably off-topic, but I recon since it has PHP in the name, you guys
>> might let me slide by? :)
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>> I run EasyPHP as my local WAMP setup and today I tried going to the
>> website http://www.easyphp.org/ and it is unresponsive. Googling it
>> brings up a number of site hits that has ads for Cialis, Viagra, etc.
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>> The easyphp.com and .net sites are already those spammy sites that are
>> just littering the Internet.
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>> So I'm wondering if the site has been hacked or abandoned?
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> Yes, one or the other. My own searches doesn't say anything definitive.
> According to the Internet Wayback Machine, the last update to their
> website was October 28, 2009, at least as far as they could retrieve
> [1]. The Internet Wayback Machine's cached version also revealed their
> Twitter and Facebook pages [2] [3], both of which haven't been updated
> much since their last official release on November 9 this year.
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> I did, however, manage to find their project page on SourceForge when
> looking for "EasyPHP" using Google.
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickeasyphp/
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> You might find the latest version (5.3.3.1) there.
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Thank you! I saw on the Sourceforge page that at least one user is
still actively committing updates through SVN. Since I have 5.3.3 I'll
stick around and see what shakes out.
It's a nice package and it will be a shame to see it go dark.
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