WAMP Server 2.0g – a Windows-based web server

Written by Arian Xhezairi on Monday, March 9, 2009 @ 3:10 AM and 112 views

WampServer is an open source WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL and PHP) web server, free to use with a GPL license. With other words it’s a must-have web development suite for web developers running any Windows Operating System version.

Yesterday an update was released, so I thought it’d be good to spread the announcement. The change log shows the latest occurrences to its core:

2.0-g -- 03/08/2009
now using PHP 5.2.9
now using MySQL 5.1.32
now using PHPMyAdmin 3.1.3
corrected a menu bug with apache 2.2.11
corrected notices generated by refresh.php

I even recommend it above all other possible alternatives though. Might be simply because I’m used to it, but it definitely is easy to use and configure. Well, actually it comes pre-configured but still you can’t say anything if you haven’t tried it yet.

There’s a new addition to the scene of WAMPs, a new web server called PAMPA-J an acronym for Portable Apache, MySQL, PHP Application plus Jaxer. Just downloaded it and maybe tomorrow I’ll give it a try if time promises.

Additional notes: check out this comparison of WAMPs (WikiPedia.org Article). Seems like most of them are outdated but it’s worth doing a little research until you settle your butt with the best among them.