How to change the port numbers on WAMP and stop conflicts with a portable server. To install WAMP on your PCWhat is WAMP WAMP stands for Windows Apache My. SQL Php.           Windows is your operating system. Apache is a server that manages communications between computers on a network including the internet. All websites reside on a server somewhere. My. SQL is a database to hold the contents of a website. Wamp For Windows Xp 32 Bit' title='Wamp For Windows Xp 32 Bit' />A website is made up of two parts its database and its programmes such as PHP        PHP is a programming language. The language resides on the server and the website is written in PHP. When do we use WAMPThe goal of this first chapter is to set you up with a web server equipped with PHP and MySQL. Ill provide stepbystep instructions that work on recent Windows. Anyone who develops websites, including their own blog, is likely to want to install WAMP on their computer. If they dont use Windows, then they will be looking for LAMP or MAMP. WAMP is installed in folder on your C Wamp. How do I use WAMP To start WAMP up, you go to StartAll ProgramsStart WAMP. You may have to give it permission to bypass your firewall. WAMP has a drop down or pop up menu. You pick local host to see a list of websites residing on your WAMP. Pick any of these and the website should appear in your browser i. Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, etc. Alternatively, you can go to your browser bar and type localhostmywebsite without the. If you are a noobe, note that is an alternative to http www. If WAMP is running, and mywebsite exists, then mywebsite will open in your browser. In short, you are running a private little internet on your computer and you can see your website in your own browser. How do I install Apache with PHP support and the MySQL server on Windows without using any readytouse packages like WAMPServer or XAMPP WampServer est une plateforme de dveloppement Web sous Windows permettant de dvelopper des applications Web dynamiques avec Apache2, PHP et de MySQL. How do I install WAMP Download the latest WAMP first recall whether you have a 6. Follow the instructions. Wamp For Windows Xp 32 Bit' title='Wamp For Windows Xp 32 Bit' />Have a look at the menu bar and see localhost, php. Admin, Apache and My. SQL. Build a website. To build your first website, use Windows. Explorer to make a new folder in c wampwwwmynewwebsite. Check that you can see the folder when you use WAMPs menu and choose localhost. This folder is still empty and in two steps, you will download into it Word. Press or Drupal, or whatever you are using. First, make a new database for your website by going to php. Admin.   Make a new database and then add yourself again with a new name and password and name that is not root. Give yourself all privileges. Now you can download and install something like Word. Press into your folder and when it asks for your database, give it your database name, your new user name and your password. When you return to localhost and select mynewwebsite, you should see your website in your browser. WAMP wont run port in conflict You very likely have Skype running on your computer as well. Skype listens to the same port as WAMP but listens to another as well. To resolve the conflict, open Skype and look for the technical settings. Uncheck listen to port 8. WAMP will work. WAMP conflicts with another server on your computer You may be running Scholar. Writer, for example, on Uniform Server and you will find you have to switch off Uniform. Server before you run WAMP, and vice versa. You might also be running Maven with Eclipse to run Use. Case. Tool uctool. Maven is also a server. You might also have a Geo. Server running You want WAMP to listen to its own distinct port and you also want My. SQL to have its own port. We will change the port in WAMP from 8. My. SQL from 3. 30. Kontakt 5 Full. We will accomplish these changes in this order. Edit Apaches httpd. Go to WAMPs menu and select httpd. Use find to find localhost and change it to localhost 8. Save. 2.        Edit c wampwampmanager. WAMP menu points to localhost 8. Find http localhost and change it to http htttp localhost 8. Three instancesc. Save. Edit My. SQL my. Elaborar Cerveza Casera Pdf. Go back to the menu and follow My. SQL to my. inib.       Find 3. Save. 4.        Edit the php. Admin config. inc. Find the config. php file at c wampappsphpadminconfig. Edit out the first reference to localhost against verbose to leave with nothing between them I dont know why but until I changed this I couldnt go from the WAMP menu to php. Adminc.        Change the next reference to localhost to 1. Change the port from to 3. Save. 5.        Restart the WAMP servera. Shut down all servicesb. Exitc.        Restartd. And test all the links in the menu. If all is well, you are now directed to both localhost 8. Admin where you can set up new databases. Change the port settings on any existing websites. Note that if you already have made a database before you changed the port AND installed a website, then you must change the settings on the website. For each website, go to c wampwwwwebsitenamesitesdefaultsettings. Final test. Fire up another server, say a portable website and see if you are able to run two servers on the same PC. And not least change your password. Your server resides behind your firewall and is not accessible from the internt. But, just in case, change the password for the user root1. In Php. Admin, change the password for user root under Privileges. Go immediately back to the config. Reboot your WAMP and just in case you are exposed to the internet, no one should be able to connect to your My. SQL without knowing your password. At last, you should have WAMP running smoothly on port 8. Skype run on other ports. I have deliberately left port 8.