what's going on with the wamp site?

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what's going on with the wamp site?

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what's going on with the wamp site? its gone!
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Sweet. WAMP is a piece of garbage anyway so the site being down is doing everyone a favor. :twisted:
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http://www.uniformserver.com/ is up - might be providence?
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I've been using XAMPP locally since I started learning PHP.I recently saw an equivalent on a YouTube video recently but this works and I haven't had any troubles with it.

Everah, why do you dislike WAMP?
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Thanks for the input...I'm a newbie to this forum and PHP.
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My problem is fairly simple...

As a developer, how professional can we be if we do not understand the components with which we work? Yes, any dude with an editor can copy and paste code, or use an installer to set up a web server environment. But it takes a bit more knowledge to understand the components.

Of course, setting it up yourself is not that hard (the environments that is, namely the A-M-P part of it). So why not learn how to do it yourself?
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I, on the other hand, am a fan of WAMP packages. Uniform Server, to be specific.

I found that setting up apache, php and mysql separately in Windows was messy, at best. A WAMP package makes it much simpler and in some cases (like UniServer) makes your setup & config portable between machines.

I've had a WAMP server in production (for backoffice stuff) for years, and Ive never had a lick of trouble with it.

Linux, on the other hand, already has everything up and running with a few apt-gets... so this is largely a moot point for me these days. Go Ubuntu!

edit: that's a lot of other hands. I really only have two.
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I have had only a small amount of trouble getting AMP installed in a W environment. Generally it comes from the shared DLLs that need to be copied to the SYSTEM directory (or editing the PATH so it sees the PHP directory) in order for Windows to recognize the libraries. Seriously, Install Apache, install MySQL, install PHP (or even unpack it and edit the php.ini file as described in the manual). Last time I installed the AMP on W it took me about 10 minutes. Spent another 5 minutes making local virtual hosts.

All in all my entire local environment was up in less than a half hour completely configured the way I wanted it with all PHP extensions that I wanted.
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My experience has been pretty close to what everah said. I, too, dislike working with something that I don't understand, which is one reason I dislike Windoze so much! Also why I use simple code editors and avoid complex frameworks. At the end of the day, though, isn't it wonderful that we don't all have the same opinions? It would be so boring if we did!!
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Last I heard, there are now many wamp packages out there to download, not centralized. Don't know if that's true or not.

Google likes to promote F/OSS for free, so if you type "php " + any project keyword (propel, pecl, etc.), more than likely you'll find your project sorted to the top. So, I did:

php wamp

And up popped this:

http://www.en.wampserver.com/
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I'm not sure about WAMP (the specific suite) but WAMP in general terms works fine for me. Sure various suites may not exactly be optimized for a live environment much less live business environments but not all of us have the same needs nor experience.

Everah, I've got you beat heh... all I have to do to get my WAMP setup running is copy over the settings and MySQL files to the XAMPP folder...and I can if I really want to just restore a copy of the entire XAMPP folder as fast as my two raid 1s will allow. :mrgreen:

Again though my computer is obviously not a live environment and kudos to those such as yourself who know the ins and outs of everything in that regard. I've only recently begun messing with virtual hosts and enabling/installing modules such as cURL.
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Re: what's going on with the wamp site?

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My original post was in regard to the wamp homepage being down...It's now back up. I appreciate everyone's input.
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