We released a new free WAMP stack today on our developer site. SpikeWAMP, as we call it, is a free stack containing Apache HTTPD, MySQL, and PHP among other components. It works on several flavors of Windows including XP, Vista and Server 2003.
So doesn't this sound like just another WAMP stack? What's different? The answer is add-ons and updates.
The stack gives you ability to choose and install from a set of popular, open source PHP applications as add-ons. The applications are automatically configured and installed to work with the stack. This will allow people to pick and choose several applications to play with, without having to install several stacks.
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If you are using Vista and having problems with the SpikeWAMP stack we released recently, you should be able to fix the problem manually.
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I tried SpikeWAMP today on a virtual image (VMWare) of Windows Server 2008 RC0 and it worked fine.
Windows Server 2008 RC1 (which is the latest one out there) seems to have some problem with Cygwin. The stack installation got stuck for a long time - I traced it to a python process during the configuration phase of the stack. The process just sat there eating up all my CPU. Eventually, I had to kill it manually using Task Manager.
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