WAMP Installation
If you want to quickly and easily install Apache, MySQL and PHP under Windows you can use the AppServ installation package.
AppServ 2.5.2 will install:
• PHP 5.0.2
• Apache 1.3.33
• MySQL 4.1.7
• Zend Optimizer 2.5.5
• phpMyAdmin 2.6.0-pl2
• Perl 5.8.4
During the installation you will be asked for the host name (you should leave what appears automatically “Server Administrator”)
You will then be asked for the user name and a password in order to gain access to the MySQL data bases. Make sure to make a note of this information as you will need it later on.
Once installation has finished restart the computer.
In order to execute Apache you must access the AppServ/Apache Control Server/Apache Monitor group.
Now check if everything works correctly by writing in the address bar of the web browser http://localhost.
You should now see The AppServ Open Project - 2.5.2 for Windows page.
From there we can access PHPMyAdmin by clicking on phpMyAdmin Database Manager Version 2.6.0-pl2
Two error messages will appear. To correct this we must edit the c:AppServwwwphpMyAdminconfig.inc.php file and make the following modifications:
At line 39:
$cfg[’PmaAbsoluteUri’] = (!empty($_SERVER[’HTTPS’]) ? ‘https’ : ‘http’) . ‘://’
. $_SERVER[’HTTP_HOST’]
. (!empty($_SERVER[’SERVER_PORT’]) ? ‘:’ . $_SERVER[’SERVER_PORT’] : ”)
. substr($_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’], 0, strrpos($_SERVER[’PHP_SELF’], ‘/’)+1);
At line 86:
$cfg[’Servers’][$i][’auth_type’] = ‘http’; // Método de autentificación
$cfg[’Servers’][$i][’user’] = ”; // Usuario MySQL
$cfg[’Servers’][$i][’password’] = ”; // Contraseña MySQL
And now you’re ready to develop server side web applications!!
Read the original article in Spanish written by jgarcía.