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.
Thanks for your useful guides!
I have a problem. The “WAMP” does not run completely and most of its menu items are not available.
The only available menu items are Help, Refresh, About & Exit.
What should I do?
I don’t know how to fix the problem.
By the way, IIS is already installed.
Thanks for your help!
Bahman, Left Click for Main Menu, Right Click for Secondary Menu, and Double Click for Credit
IIS and Apache/Wamp are both web server and might conflict in some way, so you have to disable IIS in order for Wamp to work
Disable IIS in Vista/W7:
Control Panel, Uninstall Programs, Turn Widows Features On or Off, uncheck Internet Information Services
Disable IIS in XP:
Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, uncheck Internet Information Services (IIS)
Restart computer, then restart Wamp
Also, in folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc, open file hosts and delete anything in this file and have only this line below and nothing else
127.0.0.1 localhost
If using Skype, open Skype > Tools > Options > Advanced > Connection then uncheck “use port 80…” restart Wamp then Skype
thanks
Thanks for providing the older versions of wampserver. This way developers can test on different PHP versions.
Cheers,
Mario
Hi Guys, I have taken over this weisite which is based on very old software. Thanks for the tutorial on setting up perl on a Wamp server. It should help me out a LOT. if it does, am happy to donate..
cheers
Jason
BN…
Thanks so much for the help.
I’m back in action.
Ahhhhhhhh!!! Life is good!
Please send me an email of donation amounts. If I can donate I will.
Thanks again!
I installed WAMP and had previously had a folder with a static site and was in the process of adding a blog with WordPress…and was working on Xampp and unintalled that to go with Wamp.
I made the directory in phpmyadmin like usual and thought I could simply put the static site/blog (named, “subdirectoryBlog”) in the htdocs like I did with Xampp.
Q: Where’s the htdocs folder? I saw the “subdirectoryBlog” folder in the data folder of mySQL. Is that ok working with WordPress?
Help is immeasurably appreciated!!!
Thanks!
Michael
Michael Sneed, to setup WordPress on Wamp, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=34
To move WordPress on Wamp, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=124
hello.
my WampServer system tray is orange (yellow?) after installation … where is this “Most Common Errors” section mentioned under Step 11 of the installation guide?
nopivnick, make sure no other program conflict wamp such as IIS, Skype, Zonealarm, firewall/antivirus, NOD32, Eset, any web related program …
IIS and Apache/Wamp are both web server and might conflict in some way, so you have to disable IIS in order for Wamp to work
Disable IIS in Vista/W7:
Control Panel, Uninstall Programs, Turn Widows Features On or Off, uncheck Internet Information Services
Disable IIS in XP:
Control Panel, Add/Remove Programs, Add/Remove Windows Components, uncheck Internet Information Services (IIS)
Restart computer, then restart Wamp
Also, in folder C:\WINDOWS\System32\drivers\etc, open file hosts and delete anything in this file and have only this line below and nothing else
127.0.0.1 localhost
If using skype, open skype > tools>options>advanced>connection uncheck “use port 80…” restart wamp then skype
I don’t know what is happening. I have just been able to access phpMyAdim!
At the bottom was this message: “The additional features for working with linked tables have been deactivated. To find out why click here.”
And the link gives:
cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘pmadb’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘relation’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
General relation features: Disabled
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘table_info’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Display Features: Disabled
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘table_coords’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘pdf_pages’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Creation of PDFs: Disabled
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘column_info’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Displaying Column Comments: Disabled
Bookmarked SQL query: Disabled
Browser transformation: Disabled
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘history’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
SQL history: Disabled
$cfg[‘Servers’][$i][‘designer_coords’] … not OK [ Documentation ]
Designer: Disabled
Ron, we’ve just sent you an email 🙂
When I access my wiki I and check back to Apache error log I have:
[Sun Feb 13 18:32:33 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
[Sun Feb 13 18:33:17 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
[Sun Feb 13 18:33:28 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:Log HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages
[Sun Feb 13 18:33:40 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
[Sun Feb 13 18:33:51 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:UserRights HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages
[Sun Feb 13 18:33:56 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
[Sun Feb 13 18:34:18 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:ChangePassword HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages
[Sun Feb 13 18:34:21 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
[Sun Feb 13 18:34:25 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:ListUsers HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Special:SpecialPages
[Sun Feb 13 19:12:45 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Sun Feb 13 19:12:49 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico
[Sun Feb 13 19:12:52 2011] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: Cannot map GET /mediawiki/index.php/Special:RecentChanges HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: http://localhost/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page
Hi JLBN
I am having trouble with phpMyAdmin I would be grateful for some help. I used your intructions to install wamp and mediawiki.
My wiki appears to be working ok and has been for some time. I have just tried to access phpMyAdmin and I get “Cannot start session without errors, please check errors given in your PHP and/or webserver log file and configure your PHP installation properly.”
I have checked the Apache Error log and the last two enteries are: “[error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/favicon.ico”
Thank you for any help you can give
Regards
Ron Barker
I am sorry , but these tutorials are not organised in computerconfigurations and in stating what the lessons goal is
For example i do have a local computer and don’t use a LAN
Further it is not basic enough for a starter and WAMP is on this way useless, because it is a struggle to setup WAMP
Janamdo, did you start from the main Guides webpage?
hay guyes please help dotnet2 refuses to to download please give a good working link.
it’s very urgent . . .
thanks !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
akash, we’ve checked and downloaded without any problem. Please, re-download if needed 😉
thanks
THANKS!!!!! Best howto ever!!!
Thanks, thanks, thanks! :-*
Sven, esobje
Did you both download and install WampSSL from our Downloads page?
Many thanks.
Thanks I am in the process of trying your giude, I have been battling it out since some time without success or help.
thanks! great work! 🙂
awesome. Thank you so much for everything!
Downloaded WAMP.
Installed it in M$ XP sp3
A the JB extended menu threw many errors.
I was told that Joomla does, but many extensions do not run on PHP 5.3. “Deprecated: Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in C:\wamp\www\yoursitename\modules\mod_exmenu-j15\exmenu\exmenu.class.php on line 56” and there are many. Something to do with the use of “=&”.
So, I loaded 5.21.4 on Winamp.
Now, I get:
PHP Startup: gd: Unable to initialize module
Module compiled with ….API=20090626m thread safety=1
” ” 20060613
These options need to match.
Then, PHP startup: Unable to load dynamic library ‘C:/wamp/php/php5.3.0/ext/php-mbstring.dll” The specified procedure could not be found.
Well, no kidding Sherlock.
It should be looking in C:/wamp/php/php5.21.4/ext/php-mbstring.dll”
Any idea?
J P Cook, seems Joomla has problem with PHP 5.3.x so you might want to install PHP 5.2.x add-on