{"id":553,"date":"2007-01-18T14:12:12","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T13:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/wamp-the-server-solution-for-windows\/"},"modified":"2007-10-07T23:14:35","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T21:14:35","slug":"wamp-the-server-solution-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/18\/wamp-the-server-solution-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"WAMP, the server solution for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Needing to quickly install a web server on a Windows PC, I was drawn into looking for a free software suite providing such sevrices in a simple and nice package.<\/p>\n<p>I already knew <a href=\"http:\/\/easyphp.org\/\">EasyPHP<\/a> from Emmanuel Faivre, Laurent Abbal and Thierry Murail, three Frenchmen who put in a single tool box all the free open-source tools really needed for this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>an Apache server<\/li>\n<li>the PHP language<\/li>\n<li>a mySQL database<\/li>\n<li>a few tools that makes nice complements to it:<\/li>\n<ul>\n<li>PHPMyAdmin<\/li>\n<li>SQLiteManager <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is always possible to grab them independently and to install them by yourself, but it&#8217;s such a pleasure to do this in a single simple move on your PC!<\/p>\n<p>But, I was told that there is a competing solution, <a href=\"http:\/\/wampserver.com\/\">WAMP<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phpteam.net\/\">PHPteam<\/a>. After reading in the forums that WAMP seems much simpler to install on a Windows PC than EasyPHP, I decided to test WAMP.<\/p>\n<table align=\"left\" width=\"30%\" class=\"std_box\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>Please notice: WAMP is the Windows version of LAMP, a similar tool dedicated to GNU\/Linux.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>In a few words, I can confirm the ease of deployment. The installation program is perfectly up to the level of what is normally epxected from a Windows pro installer. User choices are clear, well described and easy to understand, supposing that you know about the general issue (we are installing a web server, not yet another mini-calendar XP application&#8230;). And, there lies the only problem with WAMP (but it&#8217;s shared with EasyPHP): If they allow you to work with tools that are well known to a specialized public, don&#8217;t really believe that you could install your own server without first understanding the issues at hand with Apache, mySQL or PHP.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the overall feeling I got from <a href=\"http:\/\/wampserver.com\/\">WAMP<\/a> is even more favorable than with <a href=\"http:\/\/easyphp.org\/\">EasyPHP<\/a>. Even better, in both cases, the support is very significant in several language (most notably in English and French). I know that this is a prerequisite for some of our readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Needing to quickly install a web server on a Windows PC, I was drawn into looking for a free software suite providing such sevrices in a simple and nice package. I already knew EasyPHP from Emmanuel Faivre, Laurent Abbal and Thierry Murail, three Frenchmen who put in a single tool box all the free open-source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,37,10,38,34,4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-create-a-web-site","category-linux","category-new-web-site","category-tech","category-web","category-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}