How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 20, 2006 04:41AM

Yes, I know this must be an extremely newby question. I can't stand being new to things.

Anyways, I have just started learning PHP (note: w3schools tutorial is garbage). I'm not too far along in it. So someone directed me to here, and I downloaded the wamp server. I have it all installed on my computer and everything, so now what?

Could anyone give me a link to instructions on how to use this thing. How do I connect to the server through the internet? How do I test out PHP on this thing? Basically, how do I use this?

Any help is appreciated.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 20, 2006 04:43AM

Another note:

I was basically just told to download this at the beginning of the w3schools tutorial, not really know what it was for. I do know about how it is a server, and can be used with PHP.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 20, 2006 05:41AM

A link will do just fine

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: CyberSpatium (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: February 20, 2006 09:07AM

start WAMP
start web browser and go to [localhost]

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 20, 2006 02:03PM

Ah thanks, that works.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: CyberSpatium (---.hsd1.or.comcast.net)
Date: February 21, 2006 04:24AM

no prob

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 21, 2006 04:28AM

and now it stopped working for some reason, it shows that all services are running. now [localhost] just leads me to a blank page saying "cannot find..." etc. etc.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 21, 2006 04:29AM

and now its working again... just disregard the above message then

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Robert (---.pbn.com.au)
Date: February 21, 2006 05:37AM

Now write some php and put it in the c:\wamp\www\ directory.
I dont recommend WAMP installations to be used over the internet.
Its fine though as a PHP learning testbed.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 21, 2006 11:54PM

Yeah I'm just using it to learn PHP and testing. Okay I'll do that.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 21, 2006 11:59PM

Should the WWW directory look like an image slider containing dossier.gif, index.php, and logo_i.gif, which is the WAMP5 logo?

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Robert (---.pbn.com.au)
Date: February 22, 2006 12:48AM

Replace all the files in the www directory with your own files.
What you see there is the default testing files.

Re: How to use this?
Posted by: Armando (---.125-70.tampabay.res.rr.com)
Date: February 22, 2006 02:53AM

Oh okay

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