Published December 26th, 2006
in How-To and Windows.
Since I did a write-up on setting up a WIMP server, I figured I’d do the same for a WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP) server. In this how-to I will be using Apache 2.2.3 (windows installer) and the latest versions of PHP5 and MySQL 5. I have created a directory on my C drive named ‘web’ (C:\web) where my website(s) files will reside. In this example I used Windows XP Professional running as a virtual machine inside VMWare Server.
As always, I recommend setting this up on a non-production system the first time around. If something breaks it isn’t my fault.
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Published December 19th, 2006
in How-To and Windows.
When trying to setup my first WIMP (Windows, IIS, MySQL, PHP) server, I was surprised at how difficult it was to find a simple walk through of the setup online. I figured I would take notes as I went along and post them here.
Please note, this is what I got working on a test server, and I’m sure it isn’t secure enough for a production environment. This is just the bare bones setup on how I got everything working together so I could test web apps like Moodle and Wordpress. I suggest you try this on a test machine, such as a Virtual Machine, so you don’t make a mistake and kill a working OS. If something breaks, it isn’t my fault.
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