To get started, you should have two software – WAMP and the Drupal package. WAMP is a software stack consisting of Windows, Apache, MySQL and PHP. First, you will have to install WAMP on Windows. In ...

If you want to use WAMP on Windows to install and test various content management systems such as WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc., but you find that the WAMP Server icon in the system tray is always ...

There are two places where I do software development for the Web. The first is “out there,” on the Web server for which I pay my monthly hosting fee. The second is “in here,” right on my own desktop, ...

Last week in Gearhead I discussed the struggle to get my hosting provider to give me a server with the version of PHP I needed to run a PHP-based groupware system. Last week in Gearhead I discussed ...

Set up a free local server on your PC or Mac so you can run a new WordPress site without your work being visible to the world. Nik Rawlinson Nik Rawlinson has been writing about tech since Windows 95 ...