Wamp and Lamp are packages designed for either Windows or Linux and usually contatin Apache, MySQL, and PHP.

These packages are usually rolled into one install package, making it very easy and fast to get up and running. by installing these separately, it can take a lot of time and tweaking.

Typically in the past, I’ve always installed each thing separately. However today I wanted to test something, and needed a web server, php, and mysql up and running pretty quickly. Because it was just a local dev environment I wasn’t too concerned about security settings or anything to particular, as long as it interpreted and stored my code, I was good to go.

So I decided on a package called xampp. It also includes everything I mentioned above, but with phpmyadmin and Perl as well. It aslo has an option for FTP if you want to install that. The entire process was a breeze, and I was up and running in now time. It also has a nice control panel that you can control your services with.

Here is a really handy link, it lists all the various WAMP packages, and what they have to offer. A great way to make a decision:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_WAMPs

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