Your question makes it seem that you don't fully understand the various components that you want on your laptop.

Perl will run fine on Win2k. Just download the release from Activestate, install, and run. That has nothing to do with a "net connection" other than that you need a net connection to download the package from Activestate. Once installed on your laptop, you don't need a net connection unless you want to run a perl program that needs the net.

Perl is need to run Perl scripts. You don't need any server at all. Perl has nothing to do with a server. From your question it seems you want to run web applications powered by Perl. In that case, you need a web server. You can use IIS or Apache. You will need to configure them to run Perl scripts correctly.

PHP/MySQL have nothing to do with Perl. PHP is another language, somewhat like Perl. But questions re that would likely be best asked at a PHP forum, not at Perlmonks.

MySQL is a database, and has nothing to do with Perl, unless you want to run a Perl script (using the Perl program) that works with data stored in a database. In which case you need the database, the right modules (DBI and the respective drivers), etc. My suggestion would be to not bother with MySQL. Instead, download DBD::SQLite. It includes the driver as well as the database.

Hope this helps.

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In reply to Re: Perl on laptop running Win 2000 Pro by punkish
in thread Perl on laptop running Win 2000 Pro by meetn2veg

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