WampServer used to host Dolphin in Windows

Technoman posted 15th of June 2009 in Community Voice. 6 comments.

the first part I worte so I will take any credit for my presentation!

the second part I will not take any credit for!

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Wamp can be used at home as a complete web server for dolphin!

http://voxel.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/wampserver/WampServer2.0h.exe

First Part:

Setting up wampserver for dolphin

I wrote this part myself

Wamp is very easy to work with, you Download it from the link abouve and install it without changing any of the defaults.

Durring the install process (Internet Explorer or Firefox) it will detect and you choose which 1 if you have both on your home computer buy pressing open for the selective one you wanna use then continue ...

It asks for smtp details, write them in ... then continue.

Once wamp5 is installed and launched you will see a small white half moon with a lock looking thing in the clock area on the right side of the lower screen beside or close enough to your clock, now you know its up and ready to configure at this part

Left Click on the half moon looking device, find phpmyadmin then right click on it, http://localhost/phpmyadmin/

Then there will be a yellow bar warning * enable Intranet settings *.

Right click on the yellow bar and enable Intranet Settings.

Now Server: localhost ( underneith it ) there is Privileges ( left click on this )

Check All / Uncheck All

Any | % ( check mark this )

root | 127.0.0.1 ( check mark this )

then go down a bit more with those 2 check marked and put a check mark in Drop the database that have the same names and the users * click go * and yes.

you will get maybe errors of such, but dont worry, just refresh now and you should only have 1 privalage left

click on the guy icon looking thing and go down to where is says change password:

No Password

Password ( should have a green dot already ) put a password and re-type it again

once you entered a password twice click on go and yes if asked are you sure.

*The password for 'root'@'localhost' was changed successfully.*

once you refresh you will get errors, do not worry were almost done,

now to finalize it to make sure the password has been set into your root

C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.1.3.1 ( find: config.inc.php )

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'password_goes_here';

you can open it with wordpad for it to display like this.

save it after putting in the password between the brackets.

now reboot your computer .........

launche wamp5 once your computer has rebooted ... to put wamp5 online make sure the half moon looks solid white, just left click on the wamp

and find: put online .....

take out the Index in the www and put dolphin complete files and folders in it

and what ever you do make sure you follow the directions for Dolphin when installing ...

( wamp5 I explained it in depth abouve on my own )

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Second Part:

This part was written from the coders of wamp5 on there website.

Wamp5 runs very smoothly when you have all the right php extensions and apache settings right.

WampServer is a Windows web development environment. It allows you to create web applications with Apache, PHP and the MySQL database. It also comes with PHPMyAdmin and SQLiteManager to easily manage your databases.

WampServer installs automatically (installer), and its usage is very intuitive. You will be able to tune your server without even touching the setting files.

WampServer is the only packaged solution that will allow you to reproduce your production server. Once WampServer is installed, you have the possibility to add as many Apache, MySQL and PHP releases as you want.

WampServer also has a trayicon to manage your server and its settings.

Installing

Double click on the downloaded file and just follow the instructions. Everything is automatic. The WampServer package is delivered whith the latest releases of Apache, MySQL and PHP.

Once WampServer is installed, you can add other releases by downloading them on this website. They will then appear in the WampServer menu and you will be able to switch releases with a simple click.
Each release of Apache, MySQL and PHP has its own settings and its own files (datas for MySQL).

Functionalities

WampServer's functionalities are very complete and easy to use so we won't explain here how to use them.

With a left click on WampServer's icon, you will be able to:
- manage your Apache and MySQL services
- switch online/offline (give access to everyone or only localhost)
- install and switch Apache, MySQL and PHP releases
- manage your servers settings
- access your logs
- access your settings files
- create alias

With a right click :
- change WampServer's menu language
- access this page

How to start

When you install WampServer, a "www" directory is created (generally c:\wamp\www). Create a directory inside for your project and put your PHP files in it.
Click on the link "Localhost" in the WampServer menu or open your browser and open the http://localhost address.

Apache, MySQL and PHP releases

WampServer allows you to install almost all the existing releases of Apache, PHP and MySQL so you can reproduce exactly the settings of your production server.
To add a new release, donwload it here and install it.

Then click on the WampServer menu and activate the release that you want to use.