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Installing WAMP - Apache, MySQL, & PHP on Windows 7
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Installing WAMP on XP was pretty easy; W7 is not so trivial. It's not difficult once you know, but it took me best part of a day to figure out and required gleaning various bits of information from around the web; this tutorial brings it all together in one place to (hopefully) make other peoples lives that bit easier. It does assume that you are reasonably happy configuring Apache, PHP, and MySQL and mainly deals with the W7 quirks.
All installations must be done with administrator privileges.
>Info: A far easier way of setting up a server environment is to use pre-configured server packages, such as XAMPP. Please take a look at [this Yii Cookbook article](http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/100/yii-and-xampp-server-on-windows/ "Yii and XAMPP server on Windows") for more information.
# Apache
The details are for Apache 2.2.
At the time of writing the Windows Apache installation (2.2.15) is not Windows 7 savvy; however, a couple of tweeks makes it fit right in.
Download and install Apache allowing it to make changes to your computer as and when W7 asks.[...]