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.
The application bag currently includes Drupal, phpBB, Joomla!, Mambo, and Moodle.
We are also planning to give out updates to major components as their latest versions become available. So, in effect, this is an "install-once, add-and-update anytime" kind of stack.
We also have built-in protection for most of the configuration files - so you can edit them to suite your needs without having to worry about whether the next update or add-on will wipe out your changes.
Go ahead and take it for a spin.