Monday, 10 December 2012

Installing WAMP Server

               WAMP Server is a pre-configured software bundle of PHP, MySQL, Apache for windows machines. You can get Installer software from the WAMP server official website. Click on download on main menu, and click on the version of WAMP server depends on your operating system.


if you click on desired version in the above screen a pop up window will appear, Just follow the instructions and install Visual C++ distributional package if you don't have it in your computer. If you have VC++ installed you can click on download directly from that window ( as shown in d below image ) to download WAMP server. Or click download from here. and save it to your desired location.




















Click on the downloaded file to start installation.







click on yes if UAC pops up and installer will start installing WAMP Server.

click next on following screen to continue setup.





choose " I Accept the Agreement " radio button as and click next
















On the next screen you have an option to select installation path, browse your desired location ot leave it to default. and click on next.
















and installer will take you to the some custom settings like creating desktop icon etc. choose desired and click next and click install on the following screen.
















just wait while it extract files and starts installation ...

Installer may pop up to choose default browser to use with WAMP server, browse the desired browser application and select it to proceed further.
















and finally it will ask you weather you want to enter mail perameters to use with php, just leave it to defaults and click on next.
















Now you have WAMP server installed in your computer. And in the final screen check launch wamp server and click on finish.
















If you click on finish in the above screen, wamp server will start running, click on wamp server tray icon, and click put online  on pop up menu. and when icon turned to green after clocking online click on it again and click  localhost  on the menu as shown below
















If you get WAMP server home page (like below image), Your installation succeed with out any errors.















Now you can go to installation_directory/www ( location where your php projects should be ) and start creating beautiful web applications on your computer.. following posts will explain how to set backup for wamp server, and setting up password.

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