I installed Apache 2.2, PHP/5.2.13 and MySQL on my Windows XP to create a test platform. but somehow I can't run the installation script.
it gives me the following error:

C:\Inetpub\forum\install>c:\php\php-cgi index.php
PHP Notice: Undefined index: HTTP_HOST in C:\Inetpub\forum\install\index.php o
n line 23
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13
Content-type: text/html

can anyone help me on this?
Thanks!

I fixed above problem by changing php.ini file, set register_globals = On

now I still got the blank page during install.
but running the php by command line gave this:

C:\Inetpub\forum>c:\php\php-cgi index.php
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.13
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=77cgi7iekl71u53eld2dj7af22; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-type: text/html

Anyone can help?

it seems this is a very inactive forum. I solved my problem. Just in case anyone interested in the same practice, here is the solution:

configure PHP work with MySQL. mainly change the php.ini file
extension_dir = "C:\php"
uncomment the ";" for those mySQL related DLLs *mstring.dll, *mysql.dll in the extension section. (some solution requires put the libmySQL.dll into system32 directory);

then the MLF is working on my XP based environment.