WAMP

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Source Book ISBN 978-1-847191-17-5 Publisher Packt Publishing Author(s) Suhreed Sarkar

Additional Info Selling Online with Drupal e-Commerce ISBN 978-1-847194-06-0 Publisher Packt Publishing

Setting WAMP server

You need Apache-MySQL-PHP for running web applications.

Step 1. Get WAMP Server. WAMP server gives you Apache-MySQL-PHP. Point your browser to http://www.wampserver.com and download the latest version of WAMP Server.

Step 2. Install WAMP Server. Once WAMP Server is downloaded to your computer, double click on the installation file. It will be installed, by default, on C:\wamp. Under that, there will be a www directory, which is known as the web directory. This means all web applications you want to run, should be put inside this folder (c:\wamp\www).

Step 3. Run WAMP Server. You can configure your WAMP Sever to run when Windows starts. Alternatively, you can run it as and when needed. You can start WAMP Server from Start | All Programs | Wamp Server | Start Wamp Server. When WAMPServer started, you see WampServer icon in the system tray. Click on that icon, and you get the Wamp Server menu:

For starting all services (Apache, MySQL and PHP), click on Start All Services. For configuring PHP, go to PHP. You can create databases through phpMyAdmin. To see the default page in the web root, click on Localhost, or type http://localhost/ in your browser's address bar. It will display a page like this:

If it works fine, you are done! Your Wamp Server is working.

If WampServer has not started, the icon in the system tray will be red or orange; this is likely because something
else might be utilizing the computer's port. Apache runs on port 80 programs such as Skype also do this, so you may
need to close other applications before trying to start WampServer.

Source

The source of this content is Appendix A: Resources for Zen Cart of Zen Cart: E-commerce Application Development by Suhreed Sarkar (Packt Publishing, 2008).