Installing and Testing Wampserver Introduction 1

Confidently, you have now downloaded and installed Wampserver. This will provide you a server on your personal PC (Windows users), everywhere you can test your scripts. If you haven't yet dowloaded the Wampserver software, you can download it here:

Download Wampserver

you should have an new icon in the bottom right, where the clock is:

Click on localhost, though, and you'll see this page appear: (Localhost just refers to the server running on your own computer. Another way to refer to your server is by using the IP address 127.0.0.1.)

Click the link under Tools that says phpinfo(). If all went well, you should be looking at the following page (The one below is a different php version, but don't worry about this - as long as you see something):

If you saw the above page, then congratulations! Your PHP server is up and running, and you can make a start scripting PHP pages.

Troubleshooting

Software Engineer Darshana Shan

If you don't see the info.php page, then you will need to refer to the wampserver forums. The page you need is here:

you need to add the script name after localhost in your browser. So instead of this:

 http://localhost/index.php

Wampserver Forums