WAMP Installer

adavis

I'm looking for a reliable WAMP installer package that includes an uninstaller.

Currently I work projects on 2 servers. Server 1 has the following:

PHP 4.3.10
Apache 1.3.33
mySQL 3.23.49

And the Server 2 has the following:

PHP 4.3.3RC1
Apache 1.3.26
mySQL 3.23.55

So I'd like to load something about the same for my test environment. I'd prefer not to have to load it myself because I don't have a lot of time to fight with it and get it working right. I'd rather just load and be done with it.

I've tried PHPTrid and FoxServ. PHPTriad is defunct now. FoxServ is okay, but I'd like to have Perl 5 in the install if possible just in case I need it.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Alisa

planetsim

Other than the ones you have discussed I dont know of any others, the only others are in german or something.

Have you taken a look into Sourceforge maybe something other there.

adavis

There are about 20 on sourceforge. I just don't get a good feel for what's reliable.

Actually, I got burned with PHPTriad because I got a new computer at work and pieces of my old PHPTriad install got moved to the new computer but not everthing, so nothing worked. So, I went out and installed PHPTriad again, expecting that to fix everything, but when I did, found out that the version that I installed didn't have an uninstaller, so I ended up in worse shape that I was before I started. It's all fixed now, but I'm a little gunshy at this point.

I guess unless someone pipes up and says I really like this one, or that one really stinks, it will just be a shot in the dark 🙂.

I mainly want to stay away from PHP 5 and Apache 2 at this time because neither of my servers have them loaded and so far I've heard mixed reviews on both.

Elizabeth

I've always just installed each component separately-- it's not that bad, really! 🙂

adavis

Would you shoot for the newest versions I have on my live servers, i.e.:

PHP 4.3.3RC1
Apache 1.3.3
mySQL 3.23.55

adavis

I finally settled on IBserver. Works pretty well and is pretty close to what is installed on my 2 servers.

stolzyboy

http://www.en.wampserver.com/

dalecosp

Originally posted by stolzyboy
http://www.en.wampserver.com/

Heh:

#!/bin/sh

cd /usr/ports/lang/php5
make BATCH=yes install clean
cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql323-server
make BATCH=yes install clean
# Break for refreshments, etc...
echo "Installation finished" | mail kadmin

'Course, it doesn't really help with the "W" part, heh, but I consider that pretty irrelevant. :p And, I'm trolling, as usual. 😃

Hope all's well down South, adavis.... 🙂

adavis

Since I needed to stay pretty close to what my 2 live servers had for my test environment, IBServer was the closest I found. Otherwise, if I had control of everything, I'd have done something different. Both servers are pretty close to the same. One's what I have for the development I do for school and the other one is what we are using at work. Don't ask me why they don't use the latest and greatest, but they don't. I just dooes what they tell me, keep my head down and keep coloring between the lines 🙂 .

The south is great right now. Lots of yellowish green pollen all over everything and lots of sneezing to go around. The weather hasn't been too dicey here. Further south, it's been pretty rough, I hear.

Ya'll have a great day, ya hear now, honey chil'.
Alisa

adavis

I just had a new monkey wrench thrown into the mix. I also need Perl with dbi. I wasted all day last Friday trying to install xampp, just to find out that when I added the line "use dbi", it blew up. So, what I think is that I need the full version of ActivePerl with at least the dbi module installed. I think most all I've found have mod_perl which I don't think will give me what I want/need.

I think my best bet is to save my htdocs files and database stuff and uninstall/delete everything and then install each component myself.

Does anyone know of really good, easy to understand, tutorial to install Apache, mySQL, phpMyAdmin, PHP, and ActivePerl on Windows XP sp2?

My new task is converting Perl to PHP or PHP to Perl, what ever they need. Hey, what ever, as long as that money is deposited in my bank account every other Friday 😉

Thanks,
Alisa