Installing WampServer

The WampServer development stack can be downloaded from http://www.wampserver.com/en/. Ensure that you download either the 32-bit or 64-bit version to suit your computer. Also, ensure that you run the install with Administrator privileges as both Apache and MySQL run as Windows services and the installer will require elevated privileges to install these. Once installed and running, the WampServer icon will be visible in the taskbar--green means everything is operating as it should and your local web server is up and running: