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Practical 1 - Installation of Wamp Server
Practical 1 - Installation of Wamp Server
Practical 1
Installation of MySQL
1. Set up WAMP server to be used for the course
“WampServer refers to a solution stack for the Microsoft Windows operating system,
created by Romain Bourdon and consisting of the Apache web server, OpenSSL for
SSL support, MySQL database and PHP programming language” (Wikipedia, 2020)
We will use MySQL database, Apache for web server and PHP in this course
2. Make sure to first download and install Visual C++ Redistribuable Packages available
from Wampserver files (aviatechno.net) before installing Wampserver
3. Download WampServer from Wampserver files (aviatechno.net) or from
https://sourceforge.net/projects/wampserver/
4. Install Wampser following on screen recommendations.
5. Install MS visual studio code from https://code.visualstudio.com/download. This will be
used for all our coding such as HTML, CSS, Javascript and PHP
6. Write a brief lab report on the results of each step and submit by due date.