While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

This simple example demonstrates how to get virtual hosts up and running quickly on your WAMP server. The Windows Apache MySQL PHP (WAMP) server is incredibly powerful. Not only does it allow you to ...

There are two places where I do software development for the Web. The first is “out there,” on the Web server for which I pay my monthly hosting fee. The second is “in here,” right on my own desktop, ...

WordPress has gathered a lot of fans from across the globe and currently, it is powering more than a third of all the websites, according to a report. It has acquired popularity due to its great ...

Last week in Gearhead I discussed the struggle to get my hosting provider to give me a server with the version of PHP I needed to run a PHP-based groupware system. Last week in Gearhead I discussed ...

If you want to use WAMP on Windows to install and test various content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc., but you find that the WAMP Server icon in the system tray is always ...

I just installed WAMP and Wordpress on a Win10Pro/64 machine from this set of instructions and vcredist packages, and now I can see and administer it from the hosting computer at: [Fri Jan 24 15:37:57 ...

Set up a free local server on your PC or Mac so you can run a new WordPress site without your work being visible to the world. Nik Rawlinson Nik Rawlinson has been writing about tech since Windows 95 ...