If you are going to mod anything, edit php and other files that are warband-related, notepad++ saves the day!
The tutorial should still work and is very handy for beginners.
However, if you are planning to put yourself out there with your own server and go public with that webserver
be advised that the given tutorial is prone to various attacks and exploits that could be executed with little to no hacking knowledge nowadays.
Still a great functional tutorial!
usbwebserver isn't mandatory. I used xampp, which comes with phpmyadmin mysql and apache preconfigured.
Generally speaking you need:
- some kind of webserver (hosting programm) apache2 is widely used, nginx would be an alternative
- some kind of database to store data in (e.g. mysql database)
- php installed on your apache2 webserver
-phpmyadmin is just a grafical interface to make your life easier
