Appendix D. Installing WampServer

WampServer is a complete package that includes PHP, Apache, and MySQL for Windows and allows you to run a website from your “local” desktop/laptop computer running the Windows operating system.

WampServer is free to use (via the GPL), but you can make a donation on the developer’s site. You can obtain a copy of WampServer from www.wampserver.com/en/. Figure D.1 shows this page.

Figure D.1. The WampServer home page.

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Clicking the Download link takes you to the download page (www.wampserver.com/en/download.php), from which you can download the latest version of WampServer.

After you download WampServer, when you ...

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