WampServer - We will use this server on your PC for trainings. WampServer is for free and you can find it in google by typing in WampServer You can download it here: http://www.wampserver.com/en/download.php
1. download WampServer
2. install
A - Welcome screen, 1 click Next
B - 1 Accept the agreements and 2 click Next
C - 1 select location where to install, 2 click Next, you need at least 101,3 Mb
D - 1 Create a desktop icon if you need 2 click Next
E - Ready to install, click Next
F - 1 Search for your default browser, if you don't have a short cut on desktop, then search in program files, 2 Click Next
G -
1 -SMTP: leave on localhost
2 - Enter your E-mail address
3 - Click Next
H - 1 Select if you want to launch server now and 2 click Finish
3. Configuration 1. Localhost - Click to open browser with your new website.
2. phpMyAdmin - Click to open MySQL database (DB) About how to create DB, tutorial coming soon
3. www directory - Click to open directory with all websites files, like in uCoz file manager
4. Put online - To put online server
Now, how to set password for root user, root is a default user for MySQL
1. Open phpMyAdmin
1 Go to Privileges 2 Edit privileges
1 Enter password, 2 click on Go
3. you will see message The password for root@localhost was changed.....
4. after refresh you will see error message, don't worry, it must be so!
2. Now go to C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin3.2.0.1 and open config.inc.php
Quote
/* Servers configuration */
$i = 0;
/* Server: localhost [1] */
$i++;
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['verbose'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['port'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['socket'] = '';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysqli';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['password'] = 'YOUR_PASSWORD';
$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] = true;
/* End of servers configuration */
$cfg['DefaultLang'] = 'en-utf-8';
$cfg['ServerDefault'] = 1;
$cfg['UploadDir'] = '';
$cfg['SaveDir'] = '';
?>
Enter your password and save
Refresh your phpMyAdmin and you are in!
Now you can go to your www directory and copy files and start to make your website!
There will be much more tutorials about what you can install on your website later