I have a system with Windows XP Professional and I do not have access to Administrator login. I wish to test some PHP sites however, do not have access to install web servers like IIS, XAMP or WAMP. Is there an alternate to run any such web server from a Pen Drive / Flash Drive.
If you have php 5.4.0 or above available on your computer, you can run a simple webserver like this from command line
php -S localhost:8000
You could use ubuntu or another linux distro on a bootable USB drive (you have to boot to the USB stick on start-up). You could then install a LAMP stack on the linux OS on pen drive and an IDE. Check it out here: http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows