Setting up a WAMP under Windows Vista
Vista makes life more difficult for those of us that need Apache, PHP, and MySQL installed for development purposes (I wouldn’t dream of running a WAMP under Vista for production purposes). Here are instructions on how to do it for those that need it.
How to install Apache 2 on Windows Vista, How to install PHP on Windows Vista, How to install MySQL 5 on Windows Vista (direct link to PDF).
I hope that helps someone, because it’s the sort of collection of links I could have done with for the last day or two (kudos too to the authors, thanks for that!). I did try ZendCore, but it refused to work properly, crashing out on every attempt to submit a form in the bundled control panel, and failing to set up PHPmyAdmin. Poor show Zend, poor show - no link-love for you.
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skip to comment formI spend two full evenings setting it all up, and then because I'm tired and fighting to get PHPmyAdmin working, I navigate to the wrong directory and shift+del half of the Apache directory. Buh-bye all that effort, hello one irrevocably broken server.
Oh well, at least it won't take so long when I re-do it all tomorrow.
Note to my future self - don't mess about with server configurations when you're tired.
Dude,
You should have used http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html
There's a note for Vista users so I presume it works. I've used it before (on xp) and it is very neat.
Is this on your new laptop? When do we get a review?
Phil
Cheers Phil, I shall be giving Xampp a try tonight.
Laptop is great, I'm really pleased with it. I also happen to agree with the following review (with the exception that the ctrl key doesn't bother me, so I don't see it as a negative.)
http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2007/06/26/Samsung-Q45/p1
Well, XAMPP has failed too. Installs fine, but trying to fire up MySQL just doesn't work properly, and I've had a Blue Screen of Death from it too.
So, uninstalled again, and I'll be running through the manual install one more time. Vista, by the way, is a pain in the rear. If anything needed a service pack and a few less stupid default behaviours - Vista is it.
Tell me to be quiet if you like, but I never tend to install any web server type items on my vista or XP install. Instead I always install VMWare or virtual PC as it's now free and set it up within that, then just allocate it some mem and hdd space, and its just like having a test server without all the hassle. Hope that helps?
Nice idea Matt, cheers. On the laptop though, memory is at a premium, so I've just configured Apache, PHP, MySQL as services.
Of course, I've yet to do anything with them yet. *sigh*
Select 'development box' during install, and it will run as a Windows Service (always on).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/webserv/
Select 'development box' during install, and it will run as a Windows Service (always on).