Lolz. I luvd this…

I found this vid on youtube. It was funny. Those of you who don’t know tux(the penguin), it’s the mascot of Linux. The powerful machine that beats up tux is Microsoft Windows.

WAMP

Those of you who are thinking what “WAMP” is, it stands for Windows, Apache, MySql and PHP. As most of you would know, Apache is a web server, Mysql is a RDBMS and PHP is a server side scripting language. Amazing sites can be designed with php and mysql.

For beginners, who have never heard about these terms here is a small rough intro:

Apache: 
It’s a webserver. The pages you view on browsers are stored on computers(servers) located on some part of the world. A web server is a software that runs on that machine that your browser(client) talks to in order to get the page you requested. You can store pages on your comp and run apache to make the pages you store to be requested and viewed by others on the web.

PHP: 
It’s Hypertext Preprocessor. The pages you are viewing may not be the same way when it’s stored on the server. It may contains scripts called ’server side scripts’. PHP is one such kind of scripting language. It will be processed by the server, converted to html and sent back to your browser.

MySql: 
It’s a relational Database Management System which can be used to store data. Usually, data are stored on the remote comp, where web pages reside. Using php data can be retrieved from the database and put on the html page that’s about to be sent to you!

I was interested to get my hands on them. I decided to try it on windows. So googled the web for tutorials. What most tutorials guided, began with how to install Apache server, PHP and Mysql. Then comes the part which most beginners might find troublesome. Configuring all these three to work together on your windows box.

I spent some considerable amount of time in configuring all these to work together. But, if you can’t wait to get your hands on it, you might not want to do it that way. There is a single binary that installs all three and configures all three to work in harmony. It’s called wamp server. Just google for wamp server, download and install it and you will be ready to go :)