WAMP

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WAMP is an acronym for the combination Microsoft Windows, Apache, MySQL and one or more of Perl, PHP and Python. It is modelled after the more well-known LAMP, referring to the all-open source/free software approach which uses Linux instead of Windows.

Each element of the WAMP acronym provides an essential layer of functionality:

• Microsoft Windows is the operating system;
• Apache is the web server;
• MySQL is the DBMS (database management system [or, database server]);
• PHP is an object-oriented web scripting language;
• Perl is a powerful, general-purpose, object-oriented scripting language;
• Python is yet another powerful, general-purpose, object-oriented scripting language.

Although the half-humorous acronym WIMP has been floated and occasionally used for a system with Microsoft's IIS as the web server, most IIS setups use the included ASP for scripting and Microsoft's Access or SQL Server for the database, as the open-source MySQL and PHP tend to be more often used with the open-source Apache.

See also

• List of WAMPs
• LAMP Contains a list of similar software bundles.
• LAPP
• WAPP
• WIMP (software bundle)
• FWAP
• FLAP

External links

• The authoritative Guide for setting up a WAMP based Web Server under Windows 2000/XP
• Here is a tutorial to guide you through the manual setup of WAMP.
• This is another tutorial that will guide you through setting up a WAMP manually.
• A comprehensive article outlining WAMP installation is available here.
• A compact step-by-step guide to configure WAMP + MediaWiki is available.
• Download the WAMP trio herede:WAMP

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