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.
Hey Bud,
Tried working through some of your suggestions on your website but to no avail I find myself here.
My current quandary is that I am trying to link wamp/wordpress to my domain name that I have purchased. WAMP is installed fine and works (got the green icon) and WordPress is installed as well wamp/www/*projecname*/wordpress
How do I get these two software systems to talk to one another? I was bringing up my domain on the interwebs where it would say “Access Forbidden”…
I guess I spoke too soon. After modifying those files for assigning a virtual domain name as suggested in your blog I now cannot access “localhost” for which I am receiving the same error. I will go back and restore the default files so atleast that will be fixed.
If you can provide any help I’d be greatly appreciated. I am at my wits end here.
Thanks
~Marc
Marc, you should setup VH instead; then, you can type ‘http://site1‘ to show the webpage and/or content of folder c:\wamp\www\site1, for example, ‘http://site2‘ to show the webpage and/or content of folder c:\wamp\www\site2, ‘http://site3‘ to show the webpage and/or content of folder c:\wamp\www\site3 … in additions, you can add their shortcuts to custom WAMP Menu for quick access; check screenshot below
http://jlbn.com/web/VHshortcuts.html
No matter within or outside LAN access, you need to setup Access, DNS, and VH; Access for permission to connect to your Wamp PC, DNS to tie Domain(s) to your Wamp PC, and VH to host multiple Domains/Websites/IP’s and even you have only 1 Domain/IP, you should use VH to set it up w/ the site you want to show up first on top and localhost on bottom and others in middle if having more than 1 website; w/ VH, other PC’s, no matter w/i or outside LAN, can access/see websites/contents of that particular folder set for that particular VH on your wamp PC. If dont have real Domain, just skip DNS guide
To setup Access, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=21
To setup VH, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=23
To setup DNS, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=28
To setup Custom Menu, follow this
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=112
Note that WordPress use absolute link(s), so remove your current WordPress then you MUST follow all 3 guides to setup Access, VH, and DNS first, then use the setting for your domain in your VH to setup WordPress; for example, you setup VH and DNS for your domain ‘http://your_domain.com'; then use ‘http://your_domain.com‘ to setup WordPress; similarly, I’ve setup VH and DNS for http://blog.jlbn.net then use http://blog.jlbn.net to setup WordPress
In other words, if setup VH for wamp/www/*projecname*/wordpress folder and DNS for http://your_domain.com, just copy the content of WordPress into wamp/www/*projecname*/wordpress folder; then, in the browser, type in http://your_domain.com to begin installing WordPress from there.
Here is the guide to show how we’ve installed WordPress so you can get the idea if you’ve used different way:
http://blog.jlbn.net/?p=34
If still have issue, post back here
Hello,
I am attempting to add the WAMP server so I can load data into my MySQL database. I’ve normally run databases on linux and LOAD DATA works fine there, but evidently windows puts invisible characters in their text files that gives MySQL issues. Online forums suggested WAMPServer and PHPAdmin as the solution. I downloaded and followed the directions as stated, but I get “access denied” as it is trying to log into the root account without using the password. How do I add the password? Also, the W icon is yellow not green. Where can I find out what that means?
Thanks
When working through the setup of WAMP, on your step 15 when I click phpmyadmin, I get “You don’t have permission to access /phpmyadmin/ on this server.” What do I do from here? This is on my home computer under a user with admin privileges on Windows 7 and when I installed Wamp I used “run as admin.” Thank you in advance for your assistance!
Angela, there is nothing to do with computer admin or admin privileges but it means either your wamp is not running properly or you have another server running in your computer so make sure you don’t have any Apache, MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin outside Wamp folder, and of course make sure your wamp tray icon is green color, too
Hi, I just wanted to say thanks for ResetMySQL. I’m setting up OwnCloud using WAMP and something I did caused a #1045 error when trying to reach the phpMyAdmin page. When I reset my password to no password at all, I got into the page but my databases were missing and the log file still complained about “invalid password for user”. I’m still a noob when it comes to this stuff. Your ResetMySQL download & instructions saved my bacon. Thanks!!
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Hi, I followed after the orders, but when i tried to restart my wamp before the section which i should try to connect to http://domain, the wamp i got this message:
“Could not execute menu item (internal error) [Exception] Could not perform service action:
The service has not been started”
what can I do?
Thanks
Elik, it should be http://localhost not http://domain unless you’re followed the guide for setting up Virtual Hosts
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