Apache, MySQL, PHP Installation

For Windows

If your desktop and/or laptop runs Windows, your first task in this course is to download and install WampServer 2. Wamp stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP.

If the installation is successful, pull up a browser and type in the URL http://localhost/ and you should see a page that among other things, shows Server Configuration.

For Other Operating Systems (including Windows)

XAMPP stands for X (operating system), Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl.

Although I will use WampServer in my examples, feel free to use either XAMPP or WampServer.

Laboratory - Ungraded

Install WampServer and learn enough about php so that the URL http://localhost/greeting.php shows a page with either the greeting Hello or Guten Tag.