Getting started is (was) really hard. [Archive]

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mar0364

08-16-2006, 05:28 PM

I've been using ASP and .net now for a while. I've always wanted to try the Apache, MySql and PHP route. Every time I tried to set it up I became frustrated and gave-up.

Well I'm here to say there is help. I took my 5 year old duty laptop with XP Home on it and down loaded this little gem wampserver http://www.wampserver.com/en/

I'm now happily learning PHP and MYSql with phpadmin and it all works not a problem.

Oddly enough my old notebook pushes along nicely.

bradgrafelman

08-16-2006, 08:19 PM

If I had a nickel for every time WAMP was mentioned... :p

Anyways, moved this thread to the Echo Lounge since there's no real help needed.

Kudose

08-16-2006, 08:45 PM

Every time I tried to set it up I became frustrated and gave-up.

Me too. I found XAMPP though (apachefriends.org). It took downloading it, untarring it and starting to start coding on my own dev server. I also hear that if you do just a little bit of tweaking, it could be used for production as well.