For those who want to test CMS or have a test server for personal scripts on Windows, can install a program that contains all components necessary for running a Web server. This program will run successfully on all versions of Windows.
We will use WAMP in this tutorial, but you can also use XAMPP or separately to install apache, php and mysql. I picked because of WAMP server icon in the system-tray can easily change settings to virtually any server programs.
1. WAMP program features:
- apache server, PHP and MySQL
- phpMyAdmin
- running multiple versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL
- online and offline mode
- starting, stopping and restarting services in one click
- installing Apache, PHP and MySQL as services
2. Installing WAMP:
Download the executable from the official website and then you start WAMP. Installation is very easy, all you have to do is to give some “Next” to accept license and select the installation folder. I recommend installing the program on a disk (partition) separately, for example disk D:. When you have to reinstall Windows or you have some problems, the program will remain intact and will not be reinstalled.
3. Installing older versions, beta or RC of the server software Apache, PHP and MySQL:
In section add-ons you can find previous versions of the programs or test server. In this way you can check the script (websites) built in PHP with databases and other versions, and so make sure your script compatibility with versions of server software installed on a working server. All you have to do after installing an add-on, is to give WAMP click the icon near the clock, then the owning service add-on (Apache, PHP or MySQL) and then select Version and installed new version . Version will be activated ok will have a icon next to it.
4. Newly installed server scripts:
After we successfully installed WAMP server, we can test our script. It is recommended that for each project to make a folder. Projects must be added to the folder D: \ WAMP \ www \.
5. Accessing phpMyAdmin from another computer:
Accessing phpMyAdmin is accessing http://localhost/phpmyadmin local and the other ip http://222.222.222.222/phpmyadmin. But that we can access phpMyAdmin from another computer than the one that is installed WAMP server you first need to activate online, we click on WAMP icon next to the clock, then Put Online.
Now our scripts can be accessed from the outside, but phpMyAdmin to access and have to make a setting. Edited file d: \ WAMP \ alias \ phpmyadmin.conf (d: is the partition where I installed WAMP server). The default setting will look like this:
<directory>”d:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.2.0.1/”></directory>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
If we access phpMyAdmin from a certain IP only, I recommend that you leave only one IP can access phpMyAdmin panel:
<directory>”d:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.2.0.1/”></directory>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from 192.168.0.10
192.168.0.10 is the IP address where we will access phpMyAdmin. But if we know the IP or can be accessed from multiple locations we have the following configuration:
<directory>”d:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.2.0.1/”></directory>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
If you have not set password to access phpMyAdmin, anyone can enter your IP such modification in phpMyAdmin. To set a login password follow the next step. After any of the settings above will have to restart service, otherwise we will not see changes. To restart the server, we click on WAMP icon near the clock, and then click Restart All Services. When the icon is completely white, we can see the changes.
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