WampServer

Hello there.

It's in the title - I've installed mariaDB and it's not appearing in the tray menu, only Apache, PHP and MYSQL are options.

Wamp was working perfectly with MYSQL.

I'm using the 32bit version of wamp 3.0.8 on windows 10. I'm using the official installers from the sourceforge.

I've tried mariadb 10.1.21, 10.1.20 and 5.5.54, and I can see the folders for each of those in c:/wamp/bin/mariadb.

I've tried the wampini_repair script - it just seems to be not aware for some reason that mariadb is supported, because some of the lines in wampmanager.ini it generates regarding mariadb are still clearly commented out.

Can anyone help? I'm running out of ideas!

Hi,

At the end of Wampserver 3.0.8 update there is an information windows :

Quote
Update 3.0.8
--- Wampserver 3.0.8
- Correct Bug : MariaDB version switching
- Ability to disable MySQL
- Ability to disable MariaDB
- Ability to work only with Apache and PHP, without DBMS.
- Possibility to use MariaDB instead of MySQL

To use MariaDB, read the file mariadb_support.txt

You didn't read this information windows.

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Documentation Apache - Documentation PHP - Documentation MySQL - Wampserver install files & addons

Ha,

Well there is a surprise.

You can lead a Horse to water but you cannot make it read the information you spend hours prividing.

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(Windows 10 Pro 64bit) (Wampserver 3.3.4 64bit) Aestan Tray Menu 3.2.5.4
<Apache versions MULTIPE> <PHP versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Versions MULTIPLE>
<MariaDB versions MULTIPLE> <phpMyAdmin versions MULTIPLE> <MySQL Workbench 8.0.23>
Read The Manuals Apache -- MySQL -- PHP -- phpMyAdmin
Get your Apache/MySQL/mariaDB/PHP ADDONs here from the WAMPServer alternate Repo
-X-X-X- Backup your databases regularly Here is How dont regret it later! Yes even when developing -X-X-X-

Hi everyone,

Thanks, I must have missed that line. The step I was failing to do was:

"Right-click Wampmanager icon -> Wamp settings -> Allow MariaDB"

Which is also a fairly obvious thing to do, that I missed. How embarrassing. Hopefully someone finds this in google and doesn't spent quite so embarrassingly long banging their head against a brick wall.