WampServer refers to a solution stack for the Microsoft Windows operating system, created by Romain Bourdon and consisting of the Apache web server, OpenSSL for SSL support, MySQL database and PHP programming language.
Notable lists, variants, and equivalents on other platforms
- LAMP: for the Linux operating system (The original AMP stack – explained here.)
- MAMP: for the macOS operating system
- SAMP: for Solaris operating system
- WIMP: A similar package where the Apache is replaced by Internet Information Services (IIS)
- WISA: solution stack for Windows (operating system), consisting of Internet Information Services, Microsoft SQL Server, and ASP.NET
- XAMPP: A cross-platform web server solution stack package.
Steps to set up a server:
- Download: Go to https://www.wampserver.com/en/ and you are going to see as below image. there’re 2 buttons; one is 64 bits and second is 32 bits.
choose the one that support with your computer.
then you see from step by step.
- Configuration: The color of the symbol corresponds to the status the server is in:
- Red– Can mean the WAMP server is temporarily deactivated or there is some sort of hindrance that is not allowing it to work.
- Orange– Can mean it is idle or, like red, there is something that didn’t get installed properly.
if you have this problem, you can check your wamp port because it may duplicate port 80 with your other project.
solve: go to change default port 80 to another one.C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.22\conf\httpd.conf
open file
httpd.conf and edit Listen 80 to your requirement
example: http://localhost/ -> localhost:8080 - Green– The server is active and ready to use.