Installing WAMP (Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

1. Download WAMP from the following link. http://www.wampserver.com/en/ 
2. It is an .exe file, simply double click it and give the path as C:/wamp or whatever directory you want,give it.
3. Once installation is successful, an icon will be appearing at the bottom right task bar like this
4. Click the icon, a menu will be opened, click “put online” (this is to enable access to apache to other machines), if your ip address is 192.167.3.4, then any other machine which is connected in your network will give this ip address to use wampserver
5. Once you click the icon as specfied in Step 3, you will get the following menu
6. localhost –> to display the homepage of the wampserver
7. phpMyAdmin –> it is to manage the MySQL through a GUI, you can create databases, tables within databases, update, insert, etc
8. www directory is the place where you can put all your web application files. if your entire application is residing in a folder called as “pradeep”, then copy the pradeep/ to the www/ and the path to the pradeep/ is http://localhost/pradeep
9. Apache – to configure apache (like change of port address, server path change, etc)
10. PHP –> to configure PHP
11. MySQL –> to configure and work with MySQL in command mode.
12. http://localhost/ will display the following page
13. 
14. http://localhost/moodle will display the following page
15. 

Related posts:

1. Setting root password in MySQL and Phpmyadmin
2. Setting Root Password in MySQL and PhpMyAdmin
3. Installing NS2 under Ubuntu 8.04.1, 8.10, 9.04
4. E learning tools
5. Connect to MySQL Database using PHP