Hi,
Wamp Settings : Item menu Online/Offline is there only for historical reasons and to keep compatibility with very old versions of Wampserver. That's what you read in:
The need for Virtual HostThis item means that you have absolutely nothing to modify in the httpd.conf file. But, this way of doing it is obsolete and, moreover, presents a bug which will be corrected in the update 3.1.4: Correct default Put Offline after Online.
Wampserver is designed for local development and what I have a hard time understanding is that many absolutely want to make it a production server, even if they know nothing about it, while there are many hosting providers ensuring excellent service and adequate security for prices within everyone's reach.
You totally forget that with Wampserver, you installed a Web server, a database server, the PHP language and SQL queries.
Congratulations, that means you're now supposed to be:
- Network Administrator
- Web server administrator
- Database Administrator
- Developer
- Analyst
- Programmer.
- and so on
All these roles normally occupy at least one person per zone, which is done by the hosting providers. They are expected to know what they are doing before they begin.
WAMPServer is mainly a LEARNING TOOL, so that people can learn and try to take in hand one or more of these trades.
Out of the box, WAMPServer works 99.9% of the time. The remaining 0.1% is mainly due to non-compliance with the prerequisites.
However, the skills needed to use it correctly are not acquired by themselves, and are not part of the Wampserver box.
This forum has for role to allow you the basic operation of Wampserver, that is to say :
- Green taskbar notification area icon.
- Access to the Wampserver homepage " localhost ".
- No error message at the bottom of the "localhost" page
- Local access to PhpMyAdmin
Once there, Wampserver is functional; the rest: installation of CMS or WEB application, access from outside, resolution of PHP errors, etc. is not the domain of this forum although we often answer this kind of questions.
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