WAMP
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 available on SourceForge (try this if the other is down)
- 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.
- Only thing missing were some mysql excutables that some programs or yourself may need for command line operations.
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 !
From [1]:
- 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.