Hi kevsy,
You seem more confused than normal.
Ok lets try and get back on track here, in no particular order!
Uninstalling WAMPServer (any version)You should run the uninstall like for any Windows App.
Then as the uninstall will not remove files the install did not create, and nothing from the MYSQL folder you need to manually delete the
wamp folder after the install has finished.
Having made sure you backed anything up you may want later, OF COURSEYour question:
What is the (W7 Pro 64 bit), is that what I should be using?This is the name of a Windows Operating System version!
Is this what you are running ?
Wamp Server runs on both W32 and W64 bit systems either is fine, in fact if you have a Windows 64bit system it is still better to use the WAMPServer 32bit version, at least until PHP7 is released, as that will be the first truely 64bit version of PHP.
Regarding the existance (or not) of a php.ini file in the Apache folder.Since WAMPServer 2.5 we have been using SYMLINKS or as they are sometimes called in Windows - Junctions.
This means that a SYMLINK is placed into the \wamp\bin\apache\apache{version}\bin folder pointing to the php.ini file that actually lives in \wamp\bin\php\php{version} folder. The actual file is NO LONGER copied, just a symlink is created.
Now of course this symlink while called 'php.ini` actually points to the '\wamp\bin\php\php{version}\phpForApache.ini' file as this contains the config that is relevant to a PHP run as an Apache module which is how WAMPServer runs PHP.
The \wamp\bin\php\php{version}\php.ini file is used only for the PHP CLI (Command Line Interface) i.e. when you run PHP from the command line in a Windows Command Window.
WAMPServer and XAMPPThese 2 apps are basically the same thing. They both install Apache/MySQL/PHP on a windows system, but XAMPP also includes PERL as well.
These 2 apps will not both run at the same time!!! As they both have Apache which allocates port 80 to Listen on by default, and they both include MYSQL which allocates port 3306 to Listen on by default.
However They can both be installed on the same system
as long as only one of them is running at a time i.e. if you stop the XAMPP Apache and MYSQL services you can start the WAMPServer Apache and MySQL services, and visa versa.
This is possible because WAMPServer installs its Apache and MySQL services using specific names i.e. non standard names -
wampapache and
wampmysqld where the default service names, used by XAMPP, are of course
Apache and
MYSQL which are used by XAMPP.
Oh and if you are using the 64bit WAMPServer its service names are
wampapache64 and
wampmysqld64 but as I said earlier, there is really no benefit in the 64bit WAMPServer, and some specific situations where PHP extensions do not yet exist for the 64bit environment, and probably wont until some time after PHP7 is released.
I hope this has cleared up most of your confusion, if not let us know and we will try and sort those out too.
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<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>Read The Manuals Apache --
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phpMyAdminGet your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 12/01/2015 02:44PM by RiggsFolly.