Tuesday, February 08, 2011
WAMPserver 2
I have a WAMP server setup on my laptop for web development purposes. In the past I’ve always downloaded and installed each component (Apache, PHP, MySQL, phpMyAdmin) separately, sifting through line after line of configuration code to get everything to work together properly how I want it. Inevitably, there is always some kind of hang up; some permission snafu with Windows 7, something left commented. I’d be lucky to get through it in a couple of hours. All in all, it is a major pain in the ass.
It’s such a pain that I’ve been putting off doing a much needed hard drive format and OS reinstall.
This time I thought I’d give WAMPserver a try.
Literally five minutes and the tweaking of one line in the MySQL configuration file and it was all done.
Awesome.
