Re: Video and Media Files such as Mp4
Posted by:
SimonT
(---.lightspeed.stlsmo.sbcglobal.net)
Date: June 20, 2016 08:26AM
One last thing - if you are having problems with one file (in the case an MP4 file) try another file of the same time before looking for the cause of the problem being something other than a bad file.
It saves a lot of time - your's and everyone else's.
Do you that WAMP is a preconfigured packate of Apache web server, MySQL databaae, and PHP language support?
The W stands for Windows, the A for Apache, the M for MySQL, and the P for PHP
WAMP
If you say you haven't work with it for very long, it really means you haven't worked with Apache, MySQL, and PHP for very long.
WAMP is not some magical web server software.
It is an excellent packaged and configured set of Apache, MySQL, and PHP for Windows packages.
The good folks who created WAMP also wrote some software to give you the WAMP icon and its menus to make administrating Apache, MySQL, and PHP easier. By the way you can get different menus depending on which mouse key you use on the WAMP icon - try clicking with the left mouse button and then try the right button - the left button gives you access for administration of Apache, MySQL, and PHP.
I'm not saying the WAMP folks didn't do much - they did a lot of work and WAMP is an excellent package to let you install Apache, MySQL, and PHP quickly and get a site up and running quickly.
The right button gives you access to administration to the "package" things of WAMP.
When you install WAMP, you are taking on the jobs of an Administrator for Apache, for MySQL, and for PHP
No one said that job is easy :-)
If you encounter problems on your web site - such as accessing MP4 files, look to the web site and files first.
Don't assume it is something about WAMP or the Apache, MySQL, and PHP installed by the WAMP package.
By the way - don't even consider making changes to make your web site, on your local computer, available to people out on the Internet.
Getting Apache and MySQL to run on your local computer does not mean that they are configured for maximum security for use by others. WAMP is not intended to be for remote access where malious users can try and attack your site.
If you want to put a site online, register a domain and purchase a hosting plan from some company providing those servers. Then you put your website on their server and you leave all the administration and security work to them.
Alos - If you write any server side software, perhaps in PHP, you put your self in the job of a programmer and you must learn as much as you can about Internet security, as it applies to PHP before you put your programs on an online.
I've been in data processing since 1973 (43+ years) and thus I know just a bit about what I say.