JLBN – Windows Apache MySQL PHP – WAMP
WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. There are a lot of useful WAMP package out there and WampServer is one of the most easy to use and pack with very useful trayicon to manage your server and its settings.
WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLiteManager to easily manage your databases. WampServer installer installs automatically, and its usage is very intuitive. You will be able to tune your server without even touching the setting files.
WampServer is the only packaged solution that will allow you to reproduce your production server. Once WampServer is installed, you have the possibility to add as many Apache, MySQL and PHP releases as you want.
@ karleen
Make sure you don’t save file with hidden txt extension; in Windows Folder Property, you can disable “Hide known extension…” to see your real file extension; also, make sure to save your files in document root folder in order for Apache to parse PHP script; to get more idea, check this guide
http://guides.jlbn.net/setbs/setbs.html
@ Adrian
Thanks for comment; however, different people have different levels; some can easily get whole idea in just one word or two while a lot still have hard time even with the most simplest step by step instructions and provided screen shot pictures, so put yourself in position of the most idiot person in the world and go through all guides again, then post here if you have good suggestions instead just lame comment 😉
Far too verbose, and poor accessibility. The information shouldn’t needlessly be embedded within pictures. Could’ve been a good guide though.
hey, I’m very new to all this and after I installed wamp 2.0c, I try to test for PHP and type “localhost/test.php in my browser but it cant work. It says “the page cannot be found” I didn’t know what’s wrong and tried many many times d. Hope you guys can help me. Thanks ^^
Thanks man for the wonderful site, your guide are the ones that actually help and work ! keep up the good work, can’t wait till ur guide on Https comes out. ^^
have fun 😀
Thanks! This tutorial saved my time.
Wow,thank you for the guides.I’m a new commer and they were really helpful.Thanks again
I am trying to migrate some elderly php pages to a testing server with wamp installed and set up thanks to your clear Guides.
I understand there needs to be either some php code changes or mySQL config changes to get the current wamp setup to read the old php passwords and access the mySQL database as it has for the previous 7 or 8 years. Right now, when I fill out a form to download an item, it tells me that Access is denied for user ‘xxx’@’localhost’ to database ‘name’. Any insight, and especially an example, would be appreciated.
Best, Robert
Unfortunately I took your advice without backing up the files you said to change. So now it won’t even bring up localhost. I can always reload Wampserver but how do I get my website to connect from my DNS IP to the project shown when localhost works? Thanks.
@ Petre
* means anything which results to catch any ip that comes; when set to specific ip, you need to have some other settings as well to make it work
thank u so much
It was really a gr8 help
im confused making my server viewd by other people .. and can i use my wan IP so that people can view my site..
and when i do that people see my router or IP not the site.. im using port 8080.. need help really quickly
good site yphgxu
For LAN and WAN access, you might like to check out this guide
http://guides.jlbn.net/setvh/setvh1.html
How do I set this up with network shares? Apache reports a syntax error on a network drive e.g. X:/somepath
Gr8 help,within few clicks my problem sorted
thanks!!!!
Thanks bro…your tutorial guides really helps a lot. I was able to setup my website with Joomla using WAMP. My next step is to upload it to my host server, is it possible to do that? How can I make my database in my host server?
Thanks for the proper guidance
sami, people have problem to restart wamp because they did not perform step 2 and 3 properly, so check to make sure you did not miss any part of those steps 😉
i cannot open the SQLiteManager