From Tech Solutions Documentation
WAMP Stack can be configured using one of the stacks available online. Appserv is one of the popular options apart from the XAMPP stack and WAMP stack from Bitnami.
Appserv includes Apache, PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin in one package and you can
install in a minute without making any configuration.
Let's get started.
Download Appserv
- Check the version history from Appserv.
- Download the latest stable released Appserv windows installer version from http://www.SourceForget.net.
Install Appserv
Run the Appserv setup (.exe) file which you downloaded.
Before you install Appserv package make sure that you stop IIS if you has installed IIS
in your machine because only one web server can run in single machine.
1. You‟ll see Welcome Message, click „Next‟.
2. You‟ll see License Agreement, click „Next‟.
3. Choose the installation directory, C:\appserv as default. Click “Next”.
4. Select the applications you wish to install, all of four services are checked
as default. Click „Next‟.
5. Enter the Apache web server information. Normally, you can put whatever
you want. In Web Server Name, you can put “www.example.com” or
something like this. Administrator‟s Email Address, put your email address
or “me@example.com”.
6. Enter password for Mysql root user, enter a password which is easier to
remember when you login to mysql database as root.
7. You‟ll see installation progress.
8. Start Apache web server and Mysql service. Click “Finished”.
9. The installation is complete here. A small change needs to be made in one of the conf files.
10. Find the httpd.conf file (usually you will find it in a folder called conf or config within the folder Apache).
11. Inside the httpd.conf file find and uncomment the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so (remove the pound '#' sign from in front of the line - the # sign is for comments, by removing the # sign, you are uncommenting the line).
12. After you have made the changes and saved them, restart your httpd (apache) server for the changes to take affect. The easiest way to do this is to go to the shell command and type: /etc/init.d/httpd restart.
To verify if Appserv installed properly, put the following address in your
browser; http://localhost.
You should see the Appserv installation complete page.If the page doesn‟t appear you must uninstall, download everything and return to begin.