Sunday, 6th December 2009.

Installing WampServer 2 on Windows OS alongside IIS.

Written on Sunday, 1st November 2009 by Neeta

WampServer 2 is the latest release and is new version of WAMP5. WAMP for the beginners is an acronym for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP. Earlier WAMP5 was the packaged version of all Apache, MySQL and PHP5 for installation on any Windows OS environment. With WAMP, developers found it quite easy to install PHP, Apache and MySQL in one go. The earlier painstakingly difficult option of installing the Apache, MySQL and PHP was replaced by smooth install of WAMP.

But for the Windows operating systems where IIS was already installed on port 80, the option was to choose another port. Preferably 8080 port if it were free. In that case, once the WampServer 2 has been downloaded and installed on to your Windows just look out for httpd.conf in the Apache folder and make two changes.

ServerName localhost:8080 in place of ServerName localhost:80
#Listen 12.34.56.78:8080

Listen 8080 instead of Listen 80

Now that you have made these two changes, click on the Restart All Services option and put your WampServer 2 online. You will have your Apache server up and running with PHP5 and MySQL support on windows.

To test whether Apache server is running fine, type http://localhost:8080 in the address bar and you will have the introduction page nicely displayed.

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