WAMP

Draft

Definition

The acronym WAMP (or Q.A.M.P.) refers to a set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites or servers:

• Windows, the operating system;
• Apache, the Web server;
• MySQL, the database management system
• The PHP (and sometimes the Perl or Python) programming languages.

See LAMP, the original Linux-based solution

WAMP for Windows products

For the Windows world there exist several complete packages that come with installers and a launch/stop/configure tool. Some also work for Linux, but I'd rather not use them on a real server.

WAMP5 / WAMPServer

• WampServer (also on SourceForge)
• Supports PHP 5x and MySQL 5x (16:16, 4 December 2006 (MET)).
• This may be the best bet currently, but DSchneider didn't do any serious comparative testing.

EasyPHP

• Easy PHP.
• Used to be a good package, but supports older versions of PHP and MySQL

Upgrade of EasyPHP

Easyphp 1.8 (current on 16:16, 4 December 2006 (MET)) does only PHP 4, but you can upgrade:

• Empty the ./php directory and http://www.php.net/downloads.php
  • IMPORTANT: Edit php.ini and explicitly load php_mysql (for the php 4 this was not necessary)

extensions_dir = "./ext"
extensions = php_mysql.dll

XAMPP

• XAMPP
• Not tested by DSchneider.

Running a mediawiki on your travail PC

To run Mediawiki 1.7 (and better) you need to have PHP 5.0 installed !

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Export / dump the database on your server

Export your database on the server and transfer the file to your PC (e.g. to c:\tmp\wikimedia.sql):

mysqldump -p base_de_donnees > fichier.sql

Example:

mysqldump -p wikimedia > /tmp/wikimedia.sql

Import the database in your PC

Firstly create a database on you PC-based MysQL server

I suggest to use the command line to do the import, because file upload is limited in a typical PHP installation (else reconfigure the paramters in the php.ini file).

In EasyPHP 1.8 the mysql.exe program is here:

\program files\Easyphp-XX\mysql\bin\mysql.exe

In WAMP 5, the file is here:

c:\wamp\mysql\bin\mysql.exe

Open a terminal (DOS window, command prompt, or whatever it is called) and use this construct:

mysql.exe base_de_donnees -u root -p < path_to_sql_dump.sql

Example:

mysql.exe wikidb -u root -p < c:\tmp\wikimedia.sql 

Then wait a good moment ...

Copy the MediaWiki server

• Adapt LocalSettings.php
  • Change the DataBase user and password (on the PC I simply use the root)
  • change the IP Number

Short URLs

If you use short URLs on your production server, fix the Apache configuration on your PC too.