Setting up AMP (Apache-MySql-Php) Environment on Windows
LAMP is the name which needs no introduction. Most of the start-up companies are choosing this for developing their web based solutions as it has no cost, easy to use and very powerful for prototyping and even running website till the point when you start getting very good traffic on it.
LAMP is Linux-Apache-MySql-Php but the people who works on Windows environment needs similar environment for development and unit-testing. There are very few behavior differences in windows environment but still it is useful to have this environment to check things locally on your machine if you only have Windows operating system on you machine.
There are various packages which sets the complete environment by just installing it and there are enough document resources following which you can set the environment yourself also. These packages are generally called WAMPs where W stands for Windows and rest of the word stands for Apache-Mysql-PHP.
1. Xampp: Packaged by Apache friends and available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and Solaris. Windows version workes for Windows 98, NT, 2000, 2003, XP and Vista.
Other than Apache-MySql-PHP there are various utility packages attached with it which makes this packages very useful. These utils are following:
Perl, mod_php, mod_perl, mod_ssl, OpenSSL, phpMyAdmin, Webalizer, Mercury Mail Transport System for Win32 and NetWare Systems v3.32, Ming, JpGraph, FileZilla FTP Server, mcrypt, eAccelerator, SQLite, and WEB-DAV + mod_auth_mysql etc.
2. WAMP : WAMP package is only for Windows and also contain some of the addons like SQLLiteManager and phpMyAdmin.
3. Setting Apache-Mysql-PHP on Vista (VAMP):You can either use xampp for setting your environment on vista or use the step-by-step instructions to set up environment . You can get complete instructions at http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Apache/Creating-a-VAMP-Vista-Apache-MySQL-PHP-Setup/.
There are many more other packages as well for setting it up all and you can check them all in a comparison table at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs
There may be some discrepancies with actual LAMP and WAMPs environments but it is really useful setup to develop applications and test them.
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