Okay I give up

["Brian G. Reynolds" <brian.g.reynolds@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was impressed with someone's "Gallery" the other night so I
thought I would install Gallery....

In the documentation is says you can install it on Apache, so I thought I
would install Apache....

I have tried and tried to get Authentication to work on Apache but can not,
despite reading all the articles I can find.

So as I can access my "stuff" from the web via Apache I thought I
would look into the "Gallery" program, so I was going through the
install files when it said..

PHP.ini.
"while you are at it, check the line in php.ini (usually stored in
C:\winnt\php.ini)

Well I looked and I aint got such a file..... where does that come from..
is this Linux stuff?

Obviously installing this type of software assumes you know something about
what ever this software is? somewhere I read something about downloading a
file and chmod(?) it, what is that?

Obviously I am way over my head but I so want to understand this type of
thing but every time I try and follow instructions I immediately come
across something that I have never heard off, where do you start to learn
this? are you all programmers?

The only reason for learning Apache is I can not get IIS to work! I have
absolutely no one to help me with this type of stuff and do not even know
what book I could read to learn it.

I bought a book entitled "Teach yourself ASP.NET" then someone
said ASP and ASP.NET are 2 separate things so have not opened it....

Maybe I should just give up and admit defeat? am I the only one that finds
this sooooo frustrating?

Going for a long lie down now..........

B.