installing wampServer

[son.of.the.morning]

I have tryied to install this twice and both times i havnt got it working or am just not using it right, any idears or tips?

[petroz]

Get a mac!

 

Are you getting any errors?

[Rifts]

Dont get a mac!! :-)

 

it should be SUPER easy to install download from here http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php

 

run the exe thats all you have to do

 

what is wrong with you installation?

[son.of.the.morning]

Well i am trying to run a site which i built by using a hosting site with out any apache or anything like that on my computer, i copied all the site files to the folder wamp/www/... opened the local host and ran the page and it keeps coming up that there is a error connecting to the db host, which is the host site i have been using. Maybe this is extremely stupid but i am new to the whole server side thing and i have never used anything like wamp/apache before ( in my defence ).

[petroz]

Copy and paste that error...

[wildteen88]

and it keeps coming up that there is a error connecting to the db host, which is the host site i have been using.

Your host most probably doesn't accept remote database connections.

 

You will be better of extracting your database(s) from your host and importing them locally.

[pornophobic]

I like XAMPP for makings it easy to have a WAMP server. I don't know how a mac would make things easier? I'd just install Linux (CentOS, personally) and use that if I needed a nix platform.

[Rifts]

wamp server is 100x better then xamp

[petroz]

fanboi

 

Check your db configuration on your scripts.. make sure its connecting to your local server and not the old server....

[fortnox007]

I have xampp really easy to install, even with a few beers : )

Just install it in C:/  and not in programs

Just make sure you do secure it, very easy also and you can do it without any knowledge.

[pornophobic]

wamp server is 100x better then xamp

 

I use xampp because it installs itself quickly, then I update the binaries to the latest myself. I'm using "xampp" with PHP 5.3.3, Apahce 2.2.15, MySQL 5.1.50. I use it basically for it's directory structure and do the rest myself. I prefer LLAMP (lighttpd the second L) with proxying requests when needed for static files.

[son.of.the.morning]

If i was to exstract my data bases and store them localy, when i have finished developinging the site i would i have to put them back on to the server and chance the local host to my web host on every page that has a connection?

[wildteen88]

and chance the local host to my web host on every page that has a connection?

You should change the way you're connecting to mysql. Rather than type out this

$conn = mysql_connect('localhost', 'user', 'pass') or die('MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error());
mysql_select_db('database') or die('MySQL Error: ' . mysql_error());

each time to connect to mysql, take those lines and place them into a seperate PHP file, for example call this new file dbconn.php

 

Now whenever you want to connect to mysql you just need to include that file

include 'dbconn.php';

That way if you need to make a change to your database credentials all you need to do is edit just that one file.

 

But to answer your question yes you will need to alter your database credentials in each file. However if you do as I said above then it'll save you alot of time.

 

If i was to exstract my data bases and store them localy, when i have finished developinging the site i would i have to put them back on to the server

Yeah once you have finished developing then you'll transfer your database over to your site.

[son.of.the.morning]

Sound! Thanks again dude, alwayss storming in with the answers!