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  • Install PHP 5 Apache MySQL on Windows using WampServer
  • WAMP (Apache, PHP and MySQL for Windows) provides the popular combination of Apache with the PHP server-side language and the MySQL database in one easy-to-install package.

    1.    Download latest release of wampserver 2  from http://www.wampserver.com/en/.
    2.    Before install WAMP server , check wethere you have already installed. If yes, first uninstall the existing installation of apache.
    3.    Once download double-click the file to launch the installer.
    4.     The setup is  self-explanatory. At one point you will be asked where you want to have your www root folder. This www folder is simply where your web pages will be loaded from. It doesn't really matter what you choose and you can always change it later.

    After the installation you should have a fully functional Apache web server with PHP and MySQL.

    5.    To launch your web server go to Start › All Programs › WampServer (or wherever you installed WAMP to) and click start WampServer.

    You'll notice a small icon in the bottom right corner of your screen changing from red to white. That was just the WAMP server that booted up. By left-clicking on the icon you'll get to the server options. The meaning of the icon status changes are shown below:

    Offline mode means that only you, from your computer, can access your server. External access will be blocked (indicated by the black lock in the icon). This is the default setting and should always be used for website testing.

    Online mode on the other hand means that everyone can access your server from anywhere. This is option is for using your computer as a live web server should you intend to do that.

    Now we're going to try to access your server locally with a web browser:
    1.    Make sure WAMP is up and running in offline mode.
    2.    Enter localhost into your browser bar and hit enter.

    If you didn't provide a different www root directory when installing WAMP the default page should have loaded:
     
    localhost
     
    What localhost does is simply to look for an index file (in this case index.php) in your www root folder and load it into the web browser. You can go to that folder (usually C:/Program Files/wamp/www/) and check for yourself that such file indeed exists.

    You could now start building your own website by replacing the index file with your own index file (index.php, index.html, ...). Every time you'd made a change to your website you'd hit F5 in your web browser to load the most recent version.

    Accessing your server from anywhere

    Suppose you've created a cool website and want to show it to your friend who's living halfway around the globe, sitting in front of his computer. You only have your website on your local machine. Very similar to the looking up a web page with its IP exercise you're going to tell your buddy to enter your IP into his web browser bar.

    Your friend's web browser will then try to establish a connection with your computer over port 80 (standard port for speaking to web servers). Apache will catch this request and send the index page located in your www root folder to the web browser which in turn will interpret its containing HTML code and display it as a good old web page.

    However, if WAMP runs in offline mode your friend will see the following in his web browser upon entering your IP:
     
    error
     
    WAMP external access error
    Try it for yourself:
    1.    Make sure WAMP is running in offline mode.
    2.    Enter your IP 78.8.6.29 into your web browser bar and hit enter.

    To allow external connections to your server you have to restart WAMP in online mode.
    1.    Left-click the WAMP icon and select Put Online.
    2.    Wait for the icon status to change to white again.
    3.    Enter your IP 78.8.6.29 into your web browser bar and hit enter.
    4.    If you get the same forbidden page as before hit F5 to let the browser load the newest version.
    5.    If it's still not working you probably have to enable port 80 forwarding in your router configuration.
    Finally your buddy can see your homepage!
     
    sucess
     
    WAMP external access success

    Change Apache's www root directory

    Sometimes it's necessary to change your current www root folder to something else. Maybe you have all your work files on a different partition than where you installed WAMP to or you have several websites you're working on and need to make one of them your primary site for a while (the one that shows up when entering localhost).

    Anything that has to do with Apache configuration can be done within a file called httpd.conf.

    1.    WAMP provides quick access to certain important files, one of them being httpd.conf.
    2.    Left-click WAMP icon and select Config files › httpd.conf.
    3.    The file will probably open up in Notepad.
    1.    Press Ctrl+F and enter documentroot.
    2.    Make sure case sensitive search is disabled and hit enter.
    3.    You'll find some descriptive text and below a line that looks like DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/wamp/www".
    4.    Copy that line then put a # in front of it: #DocumentRoot "C:/Program Files/wamp/www".
    5.    Paste the copied line just below and adjust it to where your custom root folder is located (e.g. DocumentRoot "C:/my_cool_site").
    6.    Resume the search (usually by pressing F3) and you'll find a line like: <Directory "C:/Program Files/wamp/www">.
    7.    Again copy the line, put a # in front, paste copied line below and adjust it (e.g. <Directory "C:/my_cool_site">).
    8.    Save and close the file.

    Whenever you make a change to httpd.conf you have to restart Apache for it to take effect. The # we've added in front of the old lines turns them into a comment which Apache ignores. We just added them so that we can easily switch back to an old configuration by uncommenting the lines.

    1.    Left-click the WAMP icon and select Apache › Restart Service.
    2.    Wait for the icon status to change to white again.
    The root directory should now have changed to then one you've entered in httpd.conf. You can test this by entering localhost in your web browser. The index page in that folder (or the lack thereof) should show up now.
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