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Installation Guide - WAMP

This document provides instructions for installing Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1.36, and PhpMyAdmin 3.2 on Windows 7/Vista/XP. It includes steps to install each component, configure the necessary settings and paths, and test the full installation. Key steps include extracting and configuring the components, editing configuration files, adding paths, creating test files, and ensuring the components can communicate through the browser. Upon completion, the user will have a fully functioning LAMP stack on their local machine.

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Installation Guide - WAMP

This document provides instructions for installing Apache 2.2.11, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1.36, and PhpMyAdmin 3.2 on Windows 7/Vista/XP. It includes steps to install each component, configure the necessary settings and paths, and test the full installation. Key steps include extracting and configuring the components, editing configuration files, adding paths, creating test files, and ensuring the components can communicate through the browser. Upon completion, the user will have a fully functioning LAMP stack on their local machine.

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Tutorial : InstallingApache 2.2.11, PHP5.3, MySQL5.1.

36 & PhpMyAdmin
3.2 in Windows 7/Vista/XP

Index :
 Step 1 : Install Apache
 Step 2 : Install & Configure PHP 5.3
 Step 3 : Configure Apache 2.2.11
 Step 4 : Testing our Apache + PHP
 Step 5 : Installing and Configuring MySQL5
 Step 6 : Installing and Configuring PhpMyAdmin 3 Optional
 Step 7 : Making Windows recognize myserver.dev Optional

The Pre-Requisites :
1. Apache HTTP Server (2.2.11)
The best open source webserver. You need this to turn your humble computer to a powerful
webserver to execute your applications.
Download Apache 2.2.11 (with no mod ssl) (18443)
2. PHP 5.3 – Download PHP 5.3.0 (VC6 Thread safe) (17106)
3. MySQL 5.1.36 – Goto Download page
4. PHPMyAdmin 3.2.0.1
PHPMyAdmin Download Page | Direct Download PHPMyAdmin 3.2.0.1 (4281)
The above downloads are compatible with Windows 7/Vista/Vista SP1 (32 bit OS).
Before starting this tutorial. Please Turn off UAC (User Access Control) in Vista. Trust me you will get
fed up on how many times it`ll popup while installing this environment.

Step 1 : Install Apache


1. First create a New Folder in C:\ and name it as server.
2. Start the installation, and follow the onscreen instructions as shown in the screencast.
The settings for Server Information are given below.
Apache 2.2.11 Settings
3. Choose Custom Installation and specify the install path as C:\server\apache\
4. Once Installation is complete, verify the installation by clicking on the Apache Icon in the
taskbar, as shown in the screencast. You can also verify your installation of Apache by opening
http://localhost/ in your browser.
5. Congratulations for a successful installation of Apache. We still have to configure Apache, we
will do it in the coming steps.

STEP 2 : Install & Configure PHP 5.3


Extract PHP package
Now to install PHP5. Open the zip file & Extract all your files to C:\server\php. Navigate
to C:\server\php

Rename php.ini- file


Search for the file, php.ini-development and rename it to php.ini

EDIT php.ini
Open up php.ini using any text-editor. (Notepad, Wordpad, Preferrably Dreamweaver).
There are 2 edits in this file

Edit 1
Find extension_dir = "./" and replace it with (Please note the slashes)
extension_dir = "C:/server/php/ext"

Edit 2
Now in the following edit, you just have to uncomment (by removing the “; – semicolon”) from
the extension to activate it. So here are the extensions to be uncommented. Search for each one
them and remove the semicolon ;
;extension=php_gd2.dll
;extension=php_mbstring.dll

;extension=php_mysql.dll

;extension=php_mysqli.dll

The First extension enables the Image GD library of PHP.


The Second enables mbstring.
The Third and forth enables us to use MySQL database.
Save the php.ini file.

Adding PHP Environmental Variables in the System path


Great ! Now we have to add tell the computer to start php everytime the computer reboots. So,
Navigate to your Start->Control Panel->System->Advanced
System Settings then go to the advanced tab, Click on the Environmental
Variables button, then scroll down in system variables to find PATH, Edit it Add the
following Code to it, as shown below in the image, C:\server\php;

PHP Environmental Variables


1. You MUST MUST MUST reboot a windows box after setting the Path variable (step 2). If you
move on past that point without rebooting – logging off is NOT enough – apache will have
trouble finding your mySQL extensions.
2. Finally, Step 2 is over !. Now we have PHP configured. Lets move on to configuring Apache.

STEP 3 : Configure Apache 2.2.11


1. Now navigate to C:\server\Apache\conf
Edit httpd.conf
Some users had reported that they weren`t able to edit httpd.conf in VISTA using
Notepad. Try using Dreamweaver or any other editor to edit the *.conf files. If you
are still not able to open httpd.conf file in any text editor, you can try the following
solutions

1. Try different text editor


2. Stop Apache server from the taskbar and then try to edit
3. You should have administrative previliges. Try disabling UAC
4. If none of the above work. Reboot your computer in safe mode and then try
to edit httpd.conf

The above is applicable for all *.conf files

Okay, brace yourself, we got 5 Edits in this file. No big deal, pretty simple search and replace
text.

Edit 1
Search for
#LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so
Replace with
LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so

Edit 2
Add the following below the previous edit
#PHP5
LoadModule php5_module "C:/server/php/php5apache2_2.dll"
PHPIniDir "C:/server/php"

Edit 3
Search
AddType application/x-gzip .gz .tgz
Add the following below the searched line
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps

Edit 4
Search for
DirectoryIndex index.html
Replace with
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
Edit 5
Search for
#Include conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
Replace withinclude conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf
2. Now navigate to C:\server\Apache\conf\extra

Edit httpd-vhosts.conf
3. Replace all the text inside with
view sourceprint?
01.<virtualhost *:80>
02.DocumentRoot "C:/Server/www/myserver.dev/public_html"
03.ServerName myserver.dev
04.ServerAlias www.myserver.dev
05.<directory "C:/Server/www/myserver.dev/public_html">
06.AllowOverride All
07.Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
08.Order allow,deny
09.Allow from all
10.</directory>
11.</virtualhost>

Restart the Apache Webserver


If you have followed perfectly you`ll see that Apache has restarted perfectly.

Step 4 : Testing our Apache + PHP


Create Directories to store your web files
1. Firstly lets make the required Directories. Create a New Folder inside C:\server.
2. Inside the C:\server folder, create folder called www
3. inside C:\server\www\ create myserver.dev
4. and then finally create public_html folder inside your
C:\server\www\myserver.dev\
Follow this structure C:\server\www\myserver.dev\public_html\
This is where you will be putting all your html,script etc files to be accessed by your webserver.

Create index.php
Open up notepad, type in the following code and save the file as index.php inside
C\:server\www\myserver.dev\public_html\ as shown in the above picture.
view sourceprint?
1.<?php
2.//index.php
3.phpinfo();
4.?>
Please note the file name, it is index.php. Many a times, Notepad saves it as
index.php.txt, while saving, don`t forget to mention the type as All Files, this
way Notepad will save it as index.php.

STEP 5 : Installing and Configuring MySQL5


1. Lets start by unpacking the zip & start the installation. Select Typical, click Next

2. Click Next after reviewing where you are installing

3. Skip the Sign-up.

4. Install SQL, Now time to configure SQL. Its pretty simple, if you follow the onscreen
instructions.

5. Now just follow the following images.

Instance Wizard Start

Detailed Configuration

Developer Machine

Multifunctional Database

InnoDB

DSS

Enable TCP/IP Working and PORT no

Standard Char Set

MySQL As Windows Service


User Name and Password = root

Execute
6. Finally click on Execute and let mysql configure everything.
During the MySQL installation and configuration,if you have missed any step or
have not configured properly, then you can run the MySQL Server Instance
Config Wizard which can be accessed via ‘Start->All Programs->MySQL’.
*If MySQL Instance Wizard does not complete the final step, reboot your computer
and configure again.*

Test MySQL along with Apache+PHP


Now to test whether MYSQL & PHP along with APACHE are working fine, restart the
webserver, i.e click on the apache icon in your taskbar (near time in the taskbar/startbar) and
restart the webservice.
After it has restarted (green play icon will be displayed), point your favourite web browser to
http://localhost.

PHP 5.3.0....nice
If you are able to see the above page, then you have successfully configured Apache+PHP5. To
verify whether MySQL5 has been installed, scroll down the page until you come across mysql
& mysqli heading as shown below.
mysql and mysqli are extensions for MySQL
7. Woohoo ! Congratulations ! You have successfully installed
Apache2.2.11+PHP5.2.9+MySQL5.1.34 on your system. *sigh*

STEP 6 : Installing and Configuring PhpMyAdmin 3


Extract the PhpMyAdmin 3 package
This is an optional ! You can use your webserver without it as well.
Extract all the files inside the phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1-all-languages.zip to a
C:\phpmyadmin. Now navigate inside C:\phpmyadmin you`ll see another folder named
phpMyAdmin-3.2.0.1-all-languages (even if the name is something else), rename
this folder to pma. Cut this renamed pma folder and paste it inside
C:\server\www\myserver.dev\public_html
1. Now If you have followed everything properly, when you point your web browser to
http://www.myserver.dev/pma/index.php you will see a login screen or the following screen.
If you get the login screen, the username | password is root | root.

STEP 7 : Making Windows recognize myserver.dev Optional


Editing hosts file
Navigate to C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
Open up hosts in notepad/wordpad/dreamweaver any text editor and add the following
view sourceprint?
1.127.0.0.1   myserver.dev
2.127.0.0.1   www.myserver.dev
Conclusion
Thank you for reading this tutorial, hope you guys enjoyed
There is a screencast based on this tutorial, so do check it out Screencast #1 : Installing Apache 2.2,
PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 & PHPMyAdmin 3.2 for Windows 7/Vista
If you are having any trouble, feel free to post a comment.

About the Author


Vaishnavi, has completed graduation in the field of Information Technology and is in the process of
learning new things and sharing em with the world. Currently learning PHP/MySQL and RoR.

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