Visual Installation Guide for Windows Apache MySQL/PHP (WAMP)

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(Moodle Mambo | Glossary | Creating the Walled Garden)

Installing WAMP

1) Download WAMP

2) Install WAMP onto your server or computer. Note that some of the installation screens have been omitted below…just click NEXT or CONTINUE on those screens.

3) After the main installation has taken place, you’ll be asked to select the root level where your documents will be placed…consider this the place where all your web pages will go. You’ll want to select the folder entitled www for World Wide Web and then click OK.

4) Select LOCALHOST and click NEXT at the next screen (shown below)

5) Enter your default email address…be sure this is correct!

6) Select your default browser. In this example, FireFox is selected automatically.

7) Complete WAMP Setup

Configuring Your WAMP Installation

1) In the bottom right-hand corner of your window, you’ll see a half moon symbol.

Click on it and you’ll see a few options like those shown below:

2) To start the server for the first time, click on START ALL SERVICES.

• Note that you might want to take a peek at the config files, including httpd.conf, php.ini, and my.ini.

3) To start working with WAMP, access Localhost by clicking on the icon in the System Tray and then on the first entry at the top of the menu (see the picture above). You will be able to see your PHPMyAdmin and configure your database structure, as well as view all your projects at a glance. Of course, you can always open your favorite internet browser and go to http://localhost where you will see the following:

MySQL Host Password

4) Our last step (and this is optional in a training situation but not in a “real life” server install) is to protect our newly-created MySQL installation with a password.

a) Locate the Privileges link and change the Privileges as directed below. You will want to be sure to change the ‘root’ password.

1. On the WAMP5 homepage click on the “privileges” link to access the MySQL users management page.

You will see a page with all your actual users:

1. To modify the ‘root’ user’s password on host localhost, click on the link “Edit” (or “Modify”) which is near to this user.
2. On this new page, you will see a “change password” zone. Fill in this zone and click on “Go”. Your password has just been modified.

To avoid the error, just restart your MySQL server.

b) Modifying Your PHPMyAdmin Configuration

1. To ensure changes are reflected in phpmyadmin’s configuration, open the config.inc.php file which is located in the phpmyadmin directory.
   1. First, replace this line:

with

Note: This will make an error disappear on phpmyadmin’s homepage.

1. Now you just need to add your new password (still in config.inc.php file):

1. Save your file and you are done! The root user now has a new password in your php scripts.

This configuration is a basic configuration with one user having all rights on all the databases. For more security, it is better to create one user per database and to assign him rights only on this database. For example, if setting up for Joomla or Moodle, each installation of Joomla would have its own user with their unique password.

That’s pretty much it!

Interacting with MySQL Tables

Our next step is to use SQLYog (Windows) to create our database for Moodle (or other Web 2.0 app). Note that you can use phpMyAdmin that comes with WAMP, but I like SQLYog, which is free, open source and community supported.

I’ve prepared a visual tutorial you can follow for SQLYog.

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