PHP Installation Tutorial 2 - Configuring WAMP - Page 1 of 1

Tutorial Aims

To show developers how to best configure their WAMP system for code and website development.

Intended Audience

The intended audience is people who have successfully setup their WAMP system via 'PHP Installation Tutorial 1 - Installing WAMP! '

Introduction

As for the previous tutorial, your WAMP system on your home PC is best for use as a development server only. You may be able to host a personal home page or hobby page, but of course this would only be available when your computer is on and online. Baring in mind our decision to only use it as a development server we will have a specialised configuration.

In an attempt to make code developed on our server portable to the widest possible range of configurations for other peoples servers we will deliberately have a strict configuration, with many options turned off, this will force us to use 'better' programming techniques and mean anyone with apache and PHP should be able to run our code.

First we are going to configure apache, I will attempt to justify my choices for any configuration changes that I make, as well as briefly explain other possible options, this will allow you to choose your own options, should your opinion differ from mine.