Appendix D. Installing WAMP5
WAMP5 is a complete package of PHP5, Apache, and MySQL for Windows that allows you to run a website from your “local” desktop/laptop computer running the Windows operating system.
WAMP5 is free to use (GPL license), but you can make a donation on the developer’s site. You can obtain a copy of WAMP5 from http://www.wampserver.com/en/.
This page is shown in Figure D.1.
Figure D.1. Web page from which to download WAMP5
Clicking the download link takes you to the download page (http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php), which has the latest version of WAMP5.
After downloading, run the download package, and you start the Setup ...
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