Good point, I will ask some questions, As far as I know the doctor I,m helping wants to get this software ( to be made open source) to run on PCLinuxOS so he can make / get copy's made to give out free to other doctors and vets in his country.
The good news is that I've had it running ok by using 'Lamp' installed via the package manager.
Edit.. Running his test software tonight, It sets up 'users' in MySQL data base and configures MySQL and Apache settings for safe working.